World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: German Saddle Burrs

Do not despair, brave Norwegians! Your land shall be cleansed, not only from the invader, but from the filthy quislings who are his tools!

The promise made last summer was Winston Churchill's. Last week's reports from German-occupied Norway indicated plainly that it had fallen on fertile ground, for the tough little country was swept by a new wave of sabotage and open defiance.

Britain's Commando raids may have been undertaken partly as morale builders, but Haakon VII's German-hating subjects seem sold on the theory that Commando forays are preludes to an Allied invasion of...

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