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...simple reason: surprise had been achieved. The Norwegians, trusting, law-abiding, were completely disorganized; and it was six days before the Allies were able to land even territorial troops at any point south of Narvik. In the interval Falkenhorst recovered from his one serious setback. When the Allied Fleet and planes finally got busy...
With Norway's Government now officially one of the Allies, Norwegian shipping is subject to Allied control. In terms of tonnage, this is important because five-sixths of Norway's merchant fleet, the world's fourth largest (4,834,902 tons), is within the Allies' reach and out of Germany's at ports around the world. In conducting their blockade of Scandinavia, the Allies need no longer judge between essentials for the Scandinavians and possible contraband for Germany. Though stretched and strained a bit by new German threats from Norway's headlands, the northern...
Except for their own expansive claims, which Allied reports persistently deflated, the Nazis had up to last week produced no conclusive proof of their boast that Air Power can smash Sea Power. The Allied fleet had landed troops at two main points. It took them off again. As the warships and transports steamed away, the German Air Force realized that there went its last chance, for perhaps some time, to carry out a long-standing order from Field Marshall Hermann Goring: at whatever cost, sink a battleship...
...Nazi press yowled triumphantly over this sensational finale to Germany's conquest of Norway. This yowling revealed that the dive-bombing attack, and its stunning "result," were intended for the special benefit of Italy, into whose neighborhood an Allied fleet had moved in admonition against Mussolini's entering Hitler's war. Italy is long on bombing planes, not so long on battleships...
...official explanation: "Pronouncements by Italians in responsible positions and the attitude of the Italian press have been recently of such a character as to make it necessary for His Majesty's Government to take certain precautions. . . ." Next day the Admiralty doubled its precautions by sending an Allied fleet steaming eastward to Alexandria, where it could keep a sharp eye on the Italians at the mouth of the Aegean...