Word: quislingism
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Modern Visigoths. At midnight the ancient city gates were closed to prevent fleeing refugees from running into advancing Nazi columns. Then at dawn they came, the modern version of Alaric's Visigoths: grimy German warriors in swift, battle-stained tanks and armored reconnaissance motorcycles. They were Austrian soldiers led...
Canceled by King George VI was the honorary commandership of the Order of the British Empire awarded in 1929 to Norwegian Major Vidkun Quisling.
FCC will enforce this new regulation through its 27 offices and seven monitor stations throughout the country. With no alien operator among the hams, and 7,500 of them in the Naval Communication Reserve and the Army Amateur Radio System, it is unlikely that FCC suspects any strong fifth-column...
The press of Paris and London let go with a broadside of invective. "King Quisling," sneered the London Evening Standard. "King of the Fifth Column," echoed the Daily Mirror. In Paris the best that Leopold was called was "traitor" and "felon king." Paris-soir reported that General Walter von Reichenau...
If it came they expected it from Dutch and Belgian ports taken fortnight ago, from Norwegian beachheads taken in April, and perhaps from Eire, where beachheads might be established with the quisling connivance of the Irish Republican Army. Experts expected landing parties to concentrate on the southeast lowlands of England...