Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere in the snow-blanketed mountains of eastern Norway, north of Oslo, King Haakon VII and his Government found sanctuary last week. The fugitive Government released in Stockholm a White Book telling how King Haakon was on the verge of making a deal with his "protectors" last fortnight which would have put the Allies in the position of invaders instead of saviors, how it fell through because Hitler redoubled his demands...
...were on the Swedish frontier, at points which flanked Sweden's prepared defense zones (see map). Farther north a German force last week reached the Swedish frontier on the railroad line from Trondheim that crosses the narrow part of Norway, and cuts into middle Sweden, turning southward toward Stockholm. From Copenhagen the Germans could pour an endless column of men into Sweden's flat and defenseless bottom. From new air bases in Denmark, Nazi bombers can more easily than ever lay eggs of death in Swedish cities...
...STOCKHOLM, Saturday, April 27--French Foreign Legion troops from Africa were reported in frontier dispatches early today to have driven the Germans back "with heavy losses" to the north of Trondheim while Allied troops and planes battled Nazi motorized columns south of the strategic Norwegian seaport...
...STOCKHOLM--British and Norwegian troops have surrounded 3500 Germans in a "final assault" on the iron ore port of Narvik, a Norwegian spokesman claimed tonight, and the jaws of another trap were reported closing on German-held Trondheim...
...Oslo by radio. (Next day the official Moscow radio quoted his story.) Then Leland Stowe fled the city. From Göteborg, Sweden, at week's end he reported his escape, reported from his own observation that German columns were pushing out from Oslo in all directions. In Stockholm, two days later, he told the whole fantastic story of Norway's occupation...