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That night and next morning, German expeditionary forces steamed into Narvik, Trondheim, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo. At Narvik German destroyers coming in through a snowstorm sank two old Norse coast defense ships at their moorings and one armed British ship, before they could fire a shot. At all other ports except Oslo and Kristiansand, landings were made without fighting...
Norway ordered a blackout of every lighthouse on her coast. Into the Oslo Fjord steamed four warships-German. Norwegian coast defense batteries went into action and residents of Oslo fled to their cellars as they heard the door-slamming of the pieces and the bark of the naval guns in reply...
Pottinger is justifiably proud of the Press's work. It is the American agent for the publications of the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, whose headquarters are in Oslo, Norway, and it has thrice been awarded medals by the American Institute of Graphic Arts for careful and beautiful printing...
...Russia indefinitely. So, officially, the Scandinavian States did the only thing they felt they could do: nothing. Denmark, which is most vulnerable to a German attack, plumped hard for neutrality. Foreign Ministers Halvdan Koht of Norway and Rickard Sandier of Sweden, meeting with Denmark's Peter Munch in Oslo, agreed to pass the buck to the League of Nations. But unofficially both Norway and Sweden did all they could for Finland...
Scandinavia's predicament was reflected by the Oslo Aftenposten, which suggested that the U. S. help Finland with munitions, airplanes and fliers, since "no European State can effectively help Finland." In that the Aftenposten was mistaken. The only State in the world which surely can save Scandinavia from Russian conquest is Germany...