Monday, Aug. 03, 1942
Norway Speaks
After 27 months of the sickening taste of Quisling, the Norwegian Government-in-Exile knows what nourishment it wants in the world of the future.* Last week a bulletin of the government described its appetite:
>Norway, for future security, wants alliances with its great Atlantic allies, Great Britain and the U.S. Its tragic experience under the Nazis has taught Norway that small nations cannot be neutral.
>Norway has abandoned the pre-war idea of a Nordic bloc (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland), both because such a bloc could not defend itself against "one or more of the Great Powers, and because it might be used by Finland (see below) in a war of revenge against Russia, which would not be in Norway's interest.
> Norway wants "to serve as a bridge between the Soviet Union and the Atlantic powers."
> Norway's ultimate goal is "a revived, all-embracing League of Nations, but until this can be established we must seek our country's security in regional agreements. As a temporary goal, we look toward military agreements for the defense of the North Atlantic."
*So does the Norwegian Lutheran (State) Church, which last week officially renounced and denounced the state of Vidkun Quisling.
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