Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flagthe South Pole.
He called in his new Propaganda Minister Gudbrand Lunde and a Goebbels campaign in miniature began. The Antarctic was and would always be Norwegian, proclaimed Stooge Lunde, because for centuries Norwegian whalers had visited there. Norwegians had...
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