Fighting Hearts

Fighting Heart

Out of Norway came two reports--one on what Norwegians do to kill Germans, the other on how Norwegians want to live after the war.

Ways of Death. Germany's Essener National Zeitung printed an indignant article about Norwegians who had been schooled in sabotage by the British Intelligence Service in Britain, returned to their homeland to practice their craft. Anti-Nazi saboteurs, said the Zeitung, got their instructions by radio from London, carried handbooks with suggestive queries: "What is your first and last step when using a time fuse? What are two fundamental rules when using pistols? Mention two fundamental principles of jujitsu. What are the most sensitive parts of the body where a blow might bring death?"

Way of Life. To King Haakon in London, Norwegian underground leaders addressed this appeal:

"As the end of the war approaches the need rises for more precise definition of war aims. . . . Certain main points can be laid down as an expression of demands which all good Norwegians have formulated, namely: 1) a free and independent Norway; 2) complete reestablishment of democracy, legal security, free elections; 3) repeal of all laws, decrees, regulations promulgated at German behest or in the German interest; 4) compensation to the fullest possible extent of all those who have been particularly injured by the occupying power or the Nasjonal Samling [Quisling government]; 5) Nasjonal Sanding members and others who cooperated with the Germans to be punished after just trials."

To all these demands, King Haakon's Government gave an unqualified yes.

Last week the exiled Governments of Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands signed postinvasion agreements with the U.S. and Britain. Russia signed only with Norway, an open hint that the Red Army might want to cross the top of Finland to carry on the war with Germany. It was also a suggestion that Russia, with belligerent Finland and Russophobe Sweden on her doorstep, wanted a long-term friend in Scandinavia. The Norwegians seemed willing.

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