PUPPET'S TREAT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 3

PUPPET'S TREAT

QUISLING FETED NORWAY'S "DEVOTION" TO HITLER LONDON. During his recent stay in Berlin Quisling received all the honour customarily paid to the heads of States on the occasion of State visits. For instance, one very exceptional mark of esteem was posting of a double guard of honour of S.S. men outside the Hotel Adlon where Quisling was staying, while the Norwegian flag flew above the hotel throughout his stay. After Quisling's first talk with Hitler the Reich Commissioner for Norway, Terboven, gave a dinner in his honour, while Goering held a reception the following afternoon. That night Quisling gave a dinner himself. The visit as a whole was designed to demonstrate the solidarity of the Reich and Norway, and culminated with the proclamation by Quisling of Norway's fidelity, devotion and gratitude to the Fuehrer. The proclamation emphasised that the "commonwealth" of all Germanic peoples had reached its highest form of expression in the greater military share taken by Norway in the present struggle, and particularly in the great forthcoming spring offensive, when the European peoples will be "fighting for freedom from the threat to their existence offered by the plutocracies and the Bolshevists." Quisling's visit is designed to serve as a model for similar demonstrations of solidarity between the other occupied countries and the Third Reich. The next country on the list is Holland which will be represented by the Dutch National Socialist, Mussert.