Recently Quisling sponsored a parade at Oslo consisting of youths whose support he had been able to enlist. The Norwegians took no notice of them, with the exception of one sweet old lady. She stood near the kerb and nodded to them all as they marched by. “Why in the world are ybu standing there greeting all those scoundrels?” an irritated patriot finally asked her. “Surely,” she replied, ‘I may pay my respects to my dear boys.” “But you can’t possibly know them all.” '“And why not?” she asked. “Wasn’t I the matron at the jail for 25 years?”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1943, Page 3
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