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Canceled by King George VI was the honorary commandership of the Order of the British Empire awarded in 1929 to Norwegian Major Vidkun Quisling...
Although the Times could still be whimsical about it, Major Vidkun Quisling's treachery in hamstringing Norse defenses the week before gave Europe a first-rate shock. "QUISLINGS EVERYWHERE," headlined the London Times, while all over the Continent governments went hunting for those malcontents in their midst who might open the gates to the enemy...
...Narvik, Osloans knew nothing. When an isolated radio station high in Telemark kept broadcasting the fugitive Government's reports, German troops found and destroyed it lest South Norway hear more. No Oslo newspaper could publish until it had agreed to print the manifesto of Norse-Nazi Major Vidkun Quisling's junto. Arbeiderbladet, organ of Premier Nygaardsvold's Party, refused and suspended. Arbeideren, Norwegian Communist paper, readily acceded and reappeared urging abandonment of "provocative resistance...
Treachery. In Berlin on the night of Friday, April 5, was Major Vidkun Quisling, 53, onetime (1931-33) Norwegian Minister of Defense, leader of the Nazi Party in Oslo which long ago withered at the polls but still had roots, nourished by big money, throughout Norway's Army and Navy. How alive those roots were, and how far spreading, Adolf Hitler & Co. well knew when they sent their warships into heavily fortified Oslo Fjord on the night of April 8, followed by long convoys of transports. With few exceptions, the Norse forts and naval units did not fire...
...Guana de Cuevas, husband of Margaret Strong, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for me." In Manhattan, reporters discovered Arne Quisling, brother of Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows"), whose job demands a quick eye and nice judgment of distance...