QUISLING’S PLANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 5

QUISLING’S PLANS

TO HELP HIS NAZI MASTERS FRUSTRATED BY LOYAL NORWEGIANS. MASS RESIGNATION OF TRADE UNIONISTS. (Bi’itish Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 19. Major Quisling’s plans to summon the “Corporative Parliament” in Norway have been frustrated by the mass resignation of 350,000 Norwegian trade unionists, acting in united front with Norwegian employers. Defying threats of long imprisonment, they have quitted their Nazified organisations and thereby provoked conflict between Major Quisling and Germany. Their action has received the immediate support of other Norwegian organisations, and strong protests against the plans for the Parliament have been sent to the Quislingite authorities from all ciuarters.

Major Quisling was planning io summon the Parliament on September 25, and it is known that he hoped it would provide a legal base for his regime and enable him # to conclude “peace” with Germany on behalf of Norway. Norway would then adhere to the Anti-Comintern Pact and raise an army to fight with Germany. The growing bitterness over his plans caused such serious unrest that orders were issued from Berlin last week that the plans for the Parliament must be indefinitely postponed, and that Quislingites between the ages of 18 and 45 were to join the German forces.

Confusion and dismay now reign in the ranks of the Quislingites, because prominent members of the party have already received orders to proceed to the Russian front. Protest meetings are reported and some members are reported to be attempting to escape to Sweden.