KING OF NORWAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1940, Page 4

KING OF NORWAY

THANKED BY HIS PEOPLE. BROADCAST BY PREMIER ON BIRTHDAY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 3. Broadcasting from London on the occasion of the sixty-eighth birthday of King Haakon, the Norwegian Priffii Minister. Mr Nygaardsvold, referred* to King Haakon’s effort to keep his country out of the war. “But unfortunately our wishes and our will to neutrality were disregarded.” lie said. "A foreign people which for years has been brought up to regard war and aggression against her peaceful neighbours as the highest and most noble form of moral expression took our country by force of arms. In these difficult days for our people the King has shown that even in times of adversity he holds fast to his motto, ‘Everything for Norway.’ He has set no store by his own person or by the goods of his house. For him Norway's freedom and independence were the only things that mattered. He has refused to contribute to the legalisation of murder, plunder and slavery." Mr Nygaardsvold concluded by offering King Haakon the heartfelt thanks of his people and expressing the wish that his goal of peace might soon be achieved. NAZIS RAN FLAG-FLYING 1 By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) GCTHENBERG. August 3. The Norwegian Administrative Council has issued a proclamation forbidding the (lying of flags for King Haakon’s birthday today.