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HOW WILL HITLER
FALL? FOURTH
ARTICLE
ATLANTIC ALLIANCE
IN
the smoking-room of a
modest club in London, an exlled. King sits in conference with. his Ministers.
by George Slocombe
The Famous Foreign Correspondent
Hitler's demand for the formation When their Cabinet meeting of a government under Major Quisi- is over, King and Ministers ing was rejected. lunch together in the club din-
After the first stunning moment of surprise und confusion, Norwegian ing-room-a tall, lean man sur- resistance began in the forests and rounded by half-a-dozen others, Norway. Allled troops were Janded. villages of Northern and Central
who, from their robust and
Then came the unparalleled series
genial appearance, might be of disasters in the Low Countries and mistaken for master mariners."
In France. The Allied troops were. withdrawn to fight the more desper-
Stubborn People
HONGKONG HOTEL He is King Hankon of Norate battle at home.
way, and his Ministers are the GARAGE
Government of Free Norway.
The King and his ministers took Thirty-five years ago Tel. 27778-9
this refure in England. The second phase simple and modest man was call- of Norway's resistance began-the underground phase at home: the ed to the throne of the most naval phase abroad. peaceful Stato in Europe.
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Norway's fortunes are now, as in the days of the Vikings, cast upon For thirty-five years, while the waters. King Haakon still rules over a nation afloat. A great whal- Europe lived in a turmoil of re- las fleet in the north, the Furoc volutions, industrial révolts, Islands.
the flecks of the world. Destroyers
wars and political crises, Haa- A merchant feet fourth among kon stood at the helm of his ship and submarines. A small air force. of Vikings.
King And People
Don't believe for moment that Norway is entirely in the hands of the enemy. The northern part of the great peninsula is still unconquered,
There are stubborn' centres of re-
"King Haakon still rules over a nation afloat." He is soon hero addressing a mosting of Norwegian scamen in London.
"We have now got to attempt, with the other free nations, to find now formulas for international co-opera- tion.
"One thing is certain. What wa want is something quite different from the New Order which Germany is now trying to impose upon us.
Seafarers All
"We are u seafaring nation, an old Atlantic people, and our Inclusion in a Continental bloc would mean to us nothing but economic ruin."
"The characteristic Norsa culture, built up in hundreds of years of effort, would disappear. Everything that is essentially Norwegian in our lives would be destroyed.
"The kind of co-operation we need 's one with the Western peoples.
"We have always been in close economic relations with the nations on the Atlantic seaboard. They are not only our natural aliles, they, are leo the nations which have the same traditions of freedom and democracy and tolerance which yo ourselves sherish.
"In allying ourselves with them during the war, we are not only building up a mighty alliance of free- dom-loving peoples to defeat Hitler · und Hitlerism, we are laying tho foundation of a permanent alliance of Atlantic States for the future,
"Such a political alliance would secure the national freedom and economic prosperity of Norway, pro....... tect us against aggressors, and pre- vent recurring economie or political crises from halting social reform and destroying the well-being of our
In The Alliance
Leader of a nation of sailors, and, it may be, unconquerable. fishermen and peasants, he ruled sistance in those ice-covered moun- over a vast, thinly populated, kalns, those dark forests.
A newcomer tu If Hitler, invades Sweden, as he Hongkong on the date of publication by largely barren country of forests
the Norwegian people." probably will sooner or later, as soon Government, he has rapidly become and fjords, stretching from the as Sweden is more useful to him one of its most able spokesmen. 58th parallel of latitude to the largely in order to march into in tween Norway and Britain, not only would like to see included in his pro-
occupied than unoccupied, it will be
He believes in a close alliance be-
I asked Mr Lie what countries he conquered Norway through the nar- row northern neck of the peninsula, now but also after the war,
posed Atlantic Alliance. "The Aght for freedom and in- And also, perhaps, to ensure his in-
dependence, the fight against the He replied: "First of all there is vasion troops and ports on the N- Gestape and the small Norwegian- the British Empire, the greatest wegian coast from the possibility, of
the United Press Atrociations, who res serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or la part without previous Arrangement.
THE RIVAL LOAVES
Arctic Circle.
Most of his country's wealth lay on the sea, in its great mer- chant ficet, and in the sen, in the cod fisheries and herring schools the rear. of the Northern waters.
surprise and guerilla warfare from born dictators serving the enemy," commonwealth
Mr Lie told mc, "cap succeed only formed.
The
Socialist Lead
SINCE this is an all-in war, from the dangers of which
war has radically changed not even the brass-hats are ex-
Norway's foreign policy. The sterile cluded, it is not surprising to His people were a people who and dangerous neutrality upon which she based her hopes of permanent learn that the white loaf in counted few rich men, and hard- peace has proved illusory. England has to be fortified.ly any poor, as we know poverty. Many have contended for years They lived hardly and simply, in that it stood badly in need of peace with their neighbours and
with all the world, fortification-though to be fair It must be added that others have praised it as the summit of dietetic excellence.
But it seems to have been easier to put Britain in a state of complete defence after Dunkirk than to fortify the white loaf. Great Britain stands four-square to all the Nazl blasts or miasmata that may blow, but the ordinary loaf, wearing the white flour of a blameless (or, 20 some sny, blameful) life, nevertheless still stands defence- less, and the Food Ministry can- not promise that it will be made Impregnable for a few months
time.
of nations Ever
if the free nations are in close union,
"Then there is the powerful and politically and economically.
"We believe in co-operation. We rich union of the United States.
"There is France. Then Holland have co-operated in the past with the other Nordic peoples. And if the and Denmark and Belgium. And wor interrupted this co-operation, it Spain and Portugal, will inevitably be restored in peace "And there is Greece, which al- though not on the Atlantic seaboard, "The Northern States of Europe are is a maritime nation, and has proved She has realised, for the Brst-time hound together by social conditions, her right to join an alliance of free- in nearly a century, that her fate economic and cultural ties, a common dom-loving peoples by her fight for cannot be linked alone with the for-
Independence." Norway, Sweden, Finland tunes of. continental Europe.
This Norwegian statesman's idea of During the world war of
Denmark must always live in a close Her fortunes lie upon the
sea. community of ideas and interests, a an Atlantic Alliance has at least one 1914-18. they maintained a They are linked, not with Germany,_small_federation of States in
the merit:
It has Infuriated Hitler, and it has severe neutrality. During the but with Britain, as the Norwegian larger federation that Europa may
King Sverre procialmed in the thir- become.
been angrily denounced by Quisling. post-war years they worked in- teenth century.
They fear it because they know defatigably for the peace of
the power of ideas. They know that Ideos con invade them, lust as armies Europe.
Hence the importance and the
and
can-and perhaps more successfully.
"And I would like to include Ice- But they are also linked with all land and the Faroe Islands in this the maritime nations on the Atlantic union. seaboard.
"But a purely Nordic alliance is not enough, We must establish
The Norwegian patriots here are political and economie co-operation airendy prosecuting that invasion in
the Scandinavian territories. with all the tree nations,
"We have to rebuild, restore, re- The idea is being spread diligently. construct. But also we establish security and prosperity in the new Europe.
They believed ardently in the
novelty of the ideas now being advo- League of Nations. They be- cated by the Norwegian acting For lieved in the permanence of eign Minister, Trygve Lle.
Mr Lie is a Sociallst, like most of their own neutrality.
the members of Haakon's Cabinet, They even tried, at the Oslo He is a lawyer by profession, and has Conference, to erect neutrality for some years been legal adviser to strument, by grouping together into a permanent political in- the Norwegian trade unions, all the neutrals of Europe into a kind of minor Lengue Nations.
Neighbours
of
have
to
"The League of Nations was on
attempt to fulfil this dream. But the League failed.
And as it spreads, the dominion of the Nazis in the North of Europe will be more and more undermined. NEXT:
The Pistol at England's Heart,
PROTECTION Earthquake ABYSSINIA
OF U.S. SHIPS
They were also one of the few Wherever They Go
yet. Apparently magic vitamins States of northern Europe, who did not regard the Soviet Union with cannot be conjured into exlat-hostility and growing disquiet. ence as rapidly as was expected er hoped.
In the meantime, the people are promised a new version of that brown loaf which for long has been fanatically favoured in some quarters, A desperate divil war seems to impend in the bread world, for the new brown is apparently to be a formidable fellow bristling with dietetic. muniments, and ready, to fly at his white rival on the slightest provocation or none at all? How bakers are to maintain peace in their establishments with all this belligerent material around Ha hard to tell.
Russia had always been a good neighbour to Norway, even in the remolest Tsarist times--a betier
WASHINGTON, Apr. 15 (Reuter).} "The United States will protect her merchantmen wherever they go so long as they do not enter the combat zone proclaimed under the Neutrality press conference or moosevelt at a
He was
In Mexico Buildings Topple
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
British Chasing
.
After Italians
NAIROBI, Apr. 15 (Reuter). -Brillsh forces en roule to
MEXICO CITY, Apr. 15 (UP).¦ Gimma, have reached the river Omo, 106 miles southwest of
severe earthquake shook Addis Ababa, states an official ipling building, Interrupting
with or in fact, than the Finns,
the city at 1.30 p.m. to-day top-communique accounts for Norway's to-day.
Having bridged the Awash tance to take sides in the Russo-Fin- nish war last winter, and for her ther this eplying to a question whe- communications and causing at river, a column moving south was United States policy. least one large fire. There was from Adama has occupied Aselle continued good relations with Mos-
question of policy but panic amongst the residents. without opposition.
cow..
And after the last world war the Norwegians showed sympathy with the Weimar Republie of Germany, welcomed to their homes the children of starving German and Austrian familles, worked hard for tion and appeasement,
Disillusion
ol
"It is
is not law," added the President.
He declined to say whether United but no immediate reports. of Large quantities of material States ships going to the Red Sen casualties have been received. taken at Addis Ababa includo would similarly be protected, adding that he knew of no ships in those Cornices crushed from many build-surveying equipmont valued at waters now,
ings in the centre of the city en- £10,000, Questioned on the pealbility of a:ring the lives of hundreds who
In The Air reconcilia-arming United States freighters he were dashing from the offices. A
sald, "There has never been any dis-down-town building was set ́ afre,
CAIRO, Apr. 15 (Reuter)--South cussion on that except by orators.” Drivers deserted their cars on the African Air Force fighters, operating streets and ran for the open country in Abyssinia, machine-gunned an to escape the falling debris.
aerodrome at Gimma where two Italian aircraft were burned out. Severe Shock
And then came the tragic disillu- slonment. At dawn on April 9, 1940, by a combination of treachery, sur- prias and intimidation never before displayed even by the Nails, the Ger-
mans Invaded Norway,
The German and Austrian children
up
Notables In
Free China
SURVIVORS OF
As the "United Press" correspon- dent watched from his office in the heart of the city, ho anw corn/ga shaken from the 17-storey skyscraper TORPEDOED SHIP diagonally across the Pinza Pasco us Pernambuco, Brazil, Apr. 15 la Reformu. Smoke and fires were (Reuter)-Nineteen survivors of the
Firo In the distance.
crew of a British steamer landed and ambülaneta raced here to-day from a Brazilian steamer
streets with sirens which picked them up on Sunday.
The British ventol is reported to have been torpedoed,
CHUNGKING, Apr. 14 (Central of the early post-war years had Nows)-Mr and Mrs Ernest Heming- grown into fanatical, Hitler-way left Chungking yesterday after-
engli The staff of life,. It is hoped, worshipping, Nazi storm troopers and noon by plane for Lashio on route to
docile conscripta.
Singapore.
through
the will not become a sword, 'nor
Mr Erskine Caldwell, American Speaking the Norwegian they had
author and playwright, and Mrs
shrieking. citizens be so busy giving one
learned in the homes of their com- Caldwell (neo Miss Margaret The shocks were the most severe in passionate hosts they crept into Nor- Bourke-White), one of America's the memory of the "United Press" another the lie concerning the wegion harbours by stealth in the leading Industrial photographers, correspondent who has had 11 years Canadian Premier respective merits or demerits of holds of merchant vessels, throw offerrived in Chungking from Hong- service in Mexico City. The build-
the mask, and occupied Norway in kong.
ings were still shaking as this dess the rival loaves that they will the name of Hiller.
It is understood, that the Caldwells- patch was Bettig transmitted.
-OTTAWA, Apr. 15 (Reuter)--M Hankon, to his eternal credit, re- are on a double assignment of writing
Mackenzió King, Canadian Prime forget to fight the real cause of
His ministers on and photographing the conditionare in various parts of the city.
The Chief of Police reported, eight Minister, left Oltawa for Washington fused to surrender. all the trouble-the Germans. followed him.
in Free China for "Life."
to-day,
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