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ONE SOLDIER IN NORWAY FOR EVERY 10PERSONS
AS AN INDICATION of Germany's diffi- culty in subjugating a democracy even after the Nazi forces have defeated it on the field of battle, a report of the first year of Nor- way's existence under Hitler is made public in a sixty-four page pamphlet sponsored by United Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, who was States Minister to Norway when Germany attacked on April 9, 1940.
The author of the pamphlet is anonymous for the reason that he is still working against Germany inside Norway.
HUMBLE MAN ---£18,000
All his "somewhat hum- ble" life he saved. At times he was able to put away considerable sums. When he died last July he was worth £18,000.
He left nearly all his money to his third wife and gave each of his four children a legacy of £100. A daughter a thirty-year-old, teacher- school
make had failed to
for her "reasonable provision
£5
week thought he
maintenance.
Justice She applied to Mr. Farwell in the Chancery Divi sion, London.
He directed the executor to Invest £2,000 and pay the in- come to her as long as she re mained unmarried.
The woman was Miss Marjorie Clara Hackwood Worrall, of Bel- vndere Road, Princes Park, Liver- pool.
Worrall
FL
The report is vouched for by Mrs Harriman, however, in tore word that says it gives us a if the flame of revolt rwegian hearts, of and oper acts of re- bellion against the foreign tyrant, and the heroic sabotage which is practiced by all types and classes of Norwegians according to their various abilities."
to
In consequence, the report de-
forced clares. Germany is maintain an army of 250,000 sol- diers in Norway, a soldier to every ten
and in addition the
ratio of one Norwegians, Nazi Gestapo
in Norway has been augmented to of one of these 10,000, a ratio secret political police to every 250 of population.
Police Stripped Of Power
Recording facts that the Nazi censors in Norway
have kept
Norwegian
KEEP ARMY SECRETS FROM HOTEL REGISTERS
The Army Council have issued instruc- tions on the manner in which Army offi- cers visiting hotels must sign the visitors' books.
Only the minimum information neces-
be given, sary can without disclosing the officer's precise unit or its whereabouts.
Hitherto, officers have given de- tails of the place
many
where they are nor-
mally stationed.
FREUD'S GIRL CARRIES ON
Professor Sigmund
from general attention outside, Freud, the famous Vienna the report says the
power except traffic
who was
police have been stripped of all Psychologist
regulation, persecuted by the Nazis, and the Nazi Youth Troopers
fighting and Norwegian Nazis or Quisling-1S ists have received all other police from his grave!
power.
By proclamation early in Janu- Mr. Justice Farwell said Missary. "The Norwegian Fascists have free licence to attack all those who had a gooİ education,
children; Nor- partly due to her own efforts and disagree with them politically ex- not allowed to partly to the help she got from cept women and
Nazis; her father, Harry Harkwood Wor-wegian police are
interfere against the rall and her step-mother.
Her means of maintaining her
self in future were dependent o11 her own exertions, and there was nothing to suggest that she had Torfeited any moral right to
that reasonable provision would be made for her.
SPIES TAP NAZI CODE
"Norway
they wish to defend persons at- tacked by the Nazis they do sa under threats of the must severe punishment," it is reported.
The report, entitled (x-
Does Not Yield." is published by the American Friends of German Freedom, 342 Madison Avenue, of which the chairman is Dr Rein- hold Neibuhr, Professor of Chris- tian Ethics at Union Theological Sanitary.
Sponsors Other Louis Adamic, Christian Gauss, Quincy Rowe, Paul Kellogg, Frank Thomas Kingdon, Max Lerner, Manu, William Allen Nellson and Vincent Sheean.
are
The report offers in detail the spectacle that it describes as "the inner strength of democracy * fighting on without weapons." It recounts the Norwegian reaction after the military defeat of Nor- to the Nazi efforts at conciliation way, including an "Invasion eti- quette" for the Nazi army of oc- cupation, such as "give few orders, a show of temper. avoid avoid political discussions."
it
now
now
them
to
Despite the world pre-eminence
he refused which he enjoyed in his branch
Jew and that of serence, the fact that he was acknowledge the almightiness of out as a the Nazis marked him
pecial victim of their cruelty.
a year or He died in London so ago, earlier than would have been the case but for the suffer- ing he endured at their hands.
But
to his daughter, whom he handed on much of the knowledge that he gained in his Vienna laboratory and consult- ing-room, has set up a clinic in London where she is employing that knowledge in order to cure British mothers and bables who by have been bomb-shocked Nazi raiders,
Huns helped to Although the
is now kill him, his carefully collected and indexed knowledge helping to frustrate the policy of frightfulness that they have let
loose on Britain,
Anna Freud, who assisted her of his work in
father in much Vienna in the later years of his
life, and scientific successor to
Britain's radio spies are at work every night. Dur- ing the day they work in factories, shops and of- fices. Colleagues wonder
go why they never cinemas or dances.
But questions are parried with a smile--and silence. Their job isn't one to be talked about. Home from work, a quick meal, men unlock and the hush-hush the door of a room usually at the top of the house. There, until the small hours, they sit, head-phones on cars, taking down the Morse code messages which fill the air.
these would To the layman be just a meaningless jumble of
lettors.
But in the hands of code ex- perts they might produce a mes- sage of vital importance to our Intelligence Service.
No pay is given to the men who tap the air for these messages.
Their Reward
Quisling Put In Power
When, after five months of occu- pancy and three months of nego- refused tiation, the Norwegians to depose their King and legalise a puppet governrnent that would the Nazification then proceed to
were declared a of Norway they German protectorate against their will last September and ordered to submit to Vidkun Quisling os Norwegian Fuehrer.
who is recognised in direct circles as the
of to him in his line research, is supervising this clinic at Hampstead which has been set un by the Loudon County Coun- cil.
London mothers and babies, ylc- tims of bomb shock, are its pati- ents. It has a doctor in attend- ance night and day, and a staff of trained nurses.
the Treatment is free, and
are kept at mothers and babies the clinic till they are cured. All direct under the arc of them supervision of Miss Freud.
of the Lantion for 'the benefit Since then the resistance, both Allies,
Norwegian press The local passive and aggressive, has grown,
to the report. When wrote around and through cen- according Quisling attempted ย Jecture sorship regulations, it adds, and railroad and tour Norwegians met him in city during storms the after city with placards calling the power lines used by the Nazi
forces were cut. him a traitor; they refused to en- ter his lecture hall and beat his attendant Norwegian Nazi troop- beers, it is declared.
They are drawn from the radio their enthusiasts who operated own short-wave transmitters fore the war.
In consequence a concentration camp established at the former Ulven mitury training
camp,
In schools, the report adds, outside Bergen, has already be- the teachers refused to teach the come notorious, according to the have also one Nazi doctrine and pupils booed pamphlet. The Nazis
over a large brewery in the few teachers who did attempt | taken
be Oslo and converted it into a con- it. The church refused to
camp modeled the pamphlet asserts, centration silenced,
in Germany. In and continued iri defiance of Quis- Duchau,
the report declares, aling's orders to pray publicly for uary.
King Haakon, who runs the great camp aian was filled to capacity Norwegian merchant, fleet from' with "unsatisfactory Norwegians,"
"We are glad to serve
this
way," country In them said. "Naturally we have no idea of the codes used by German agents. "But it is a great thrill to feel you might be getting down message which, decoded, might be of supreme importance.”
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