NORWAY

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 148, 29 August 1941, Page 3

NORWAY

RESISTING THE NAZIS "Think of the courage of those members of the Supreme Court of Norway who resigned in a body rather than allow our proud Norwegian traditions of justice to be prostituted to the contemptible chicanery of Nazi Diktats* Those men know that henceforth they would be marked men, their every movement spied on by the Gestapo and its Quisling lackeys, the concentration camp, artl perhaps the executioners axe, waiting ready for the first false step— yet they could do no other, for there is something which we Norwegians will never stand, and that is interference with our long-standing rights of self-government and independent initiative. Nowhere in the world could the Fuehrer-prinzip have less chance of success than in Norway. That is why the Norwegian Church is whole-heartedly opposed to the Quisling regime. "To-day our brothers and sistersr In Norway are fighting a Silent War, but it is none the less a crucial one, for whole struggle against Nazism. Norway is one of Hitler's principal experimental grounds for the New Order. But Hitler is losing, this battle. Not only is Quisling an ob|eet of contempt, but the Germarr foldiers, too—there are nearly 300.000 of them in Norwayi—are being demoralised by the icy hostility and mockery wherever they go.—Mr Frygoe Lie, Norwegian. Foreign Minister.