QUISLING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 165, 27 May 1940, Page 3

QUISLING

BETRAYER OF NORWAY Major Quisling, the betrayer of Norway to Nazism, was generally regarded by Norwegians as a somewhat unbalanced idealist, according to Norwegians in Sydney. Converted to Nazism several years ago. he became a member of the staff of the Nazi-inspired newspaper at Oslo, Fritt Folk. Condemning the Government's, refusal to re-arm in 1938, he contributed a leader under the title, ironically enough, "Deceiving the People." In it he stated: "We can only hope that our people will be spared the ordeal of being tried beyond their endurance, but those politicians and other servants of tho State, who have the full responsibility, ought to feel the full consequences of what they have done in not arming. In an article in the same paper, Quisling stated that Norway was "bound by its membership of the League of Nations to defend both Denmark and Finland." "There is no doubt that the European situation is becoming more complicated every week," he continued. "The possibilities for peaceful solution becomes less every day. "Our only solution is to keep our neutrality. This can be done only by (1) immediately giving up the League of Nations pact, and re-af-firming our neutrality; (2) building up an effective defence under expert guidance; and (3) making the people's opinion sufficiently strong l o overthrow the present inefficient Government and substitute for it a national Government, which will not be dependent upon political parlies."