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...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 of his son, Crown Prince Olav, depended the immediate fate of Norway...
...year and a half in prison, and last month a second would-be Führer named Robert Tobler, whose party is called the National Front, was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Last week the Swiss Government warned its citizens to disregard any purported "official" orders not to resist invaders: Switzerland would resist any invader...
...Netherlands Indies' Army is little more than an efficient police force to keep the natives in order. The Dutch Navy could not long resist the Japanese Fleet, even though the invaders would be attacking recklessly far from home. Japan's Fleet is far from being as war-weary as her Army...
Osloans, now beginning to get their backs up, could and did resist self-appointed Premier Quisling. Failing to get cooperation from the people, Quisling gave way last week to a new puppet regime, headed by 68-year-old Infgolf Elster Christensen, former Conservative Cabinet Minister, since 1929 Governor of Oslo District. Blessed by the Norwegian Supreme Court, this regime was described by Berlin as the legally constituted Government of Norway. Aside from the ubiquitous Quisling, who was put in charge of demobilization, nearly all members of the interim Government were local Government officials and businessmen...
...cannot resist the conviction," Professor Cross concluded, "that, apart from the British inefficiency, Hitler's chief assets at the present moment are the Johnson Act and the isolationist temper of a majority of our own people. The one tangible political gain from the present American attitude is that it at least keeps the Japanese quiet...