Word: vidkun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week were getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment-the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed...
...better traitor than terrorist, Major Vidkun Quisling has been a four-star flop as Nazi Gauleiter of the country he betrayed. Tough-fibred Norwegians, though defeated, have refused to be conquered. The Norsemen's passive resistance has included sabotage of power plants, attacks on individual Nazis, stealing any Nazi weapons left unguarded. Secret anti-Nazi organizations have flourished and have smuggled in money from sympathetic Sweden, arms from Britain...
...specialist in systematic terror, Heinrich Himmler last week began, to rectify Vidkun Quisling's shortcomings. Three Norse operators of a secret radio station were sentenced to death, prison warders were ordered to make things tougher for political prisoners. But Norway still was not scared (see p. 70). From Stockholm came reports that Norway's ever doughty ministers had read openly from their pulpits a forbidden letter from Norway's seven bishops, condemning Quisling and the Nazis root and branch (TIME...
Last week Vidkun Quisling was interrupted at his business of forcing Adolf Hitler's "new order" on winter-chilled Norway. Suddenly there were terrible reverberations in the western mountains, and whole mountainsides, loosened by rain and snow, roared down into the valleys. Masses of mud and rock clogged roads and highways, smashed houses and bridges, snapped telephone poles, blocked the vital Oslo-Bergen railway at ten different places...
...bottom of the world in 1911. But in January, King Haakon VII brought the coast between the disputed Falkland quadrant and the Australian section under the Norwegian flag, to clinch a twelve-year mapping job backed by Norwegian Whale Tycoon Lars Christensen. Last month impatient Little Führer Vidkun Quisling made up for all lost time by announcing outright Norwegian ownership of the whole Antarctic...