NORWAY: Ignoble Experiment

Oslo's two biggest buildings, the Oddfellow Building* and the Corn Monopoly Building, last week were getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment—the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed.

A willing but inept stooge, Quisling's blurred carbon copy of the Nazi Party, the Nasjonal Samling has done its best to rule Norway by typical steel-and-sugar...

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