Word: romsdal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what was left of Norway last week, by proclamation to his captive people. He was somewhere above the Arctic Circle, in Harstad, Tromso or Hammerfest, far north of Narvik, where a British destroyer carried him last fortnight when he narrowly escaped from Molde at the mouth of bomb-battered Romsdal Fjord below Trondheim...
...Nazi war flag (black swastika on a white bull's-eye in a quartered red field with Iron Cross) fluttered up triumphantly one spring afternoon last week over the ruins of Åndalsnes, at the head of Romsdal Fjord in western Norway. It was 15 o'clock (3 p.m.) by German Army watches and just two weeks since British battalions landed there for the purpose, the whole world believed, of pushing the German invaders out of Norway. Instead, all the pushing-and a lot of punching, hammering, rushing and blasting-had been done by the Germans...
...many hours before the Nazi flag rose over Åndalsnes, Norway's King Haakon fled aboard a British man-of-war out of Molde, the port at the sea end of Romsdal Fjord. Some reports said he would go to Great Britain, as did his Foreign Minister Halvdan Koht, while calling back over his shoulder to his countrymen to resist to the last. But Norse loyalists insisted that their King would take his stand and maintain his Government in one of the three northern provinces yet left to him: Nordland, Troms, Finnmark. Upon his attitude and whereabouts, or those...
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