The Archive · 1941

Uncensored News From Norway

First-hand Impressions of Conditions Inside Country Recounted in Broadcast Talk

the first of a series of Sunday evening talks on conditions in his own country, which is now being ground under the Nazi heel, Mr. K. A. Person, local Norwegian resident, yesterday quoted extracts from interviews given by two fellow-countrymen who have left-the country. The people are not depressed or hopeless, declared Mr. Person. His broadcast follows:

"Some day in the sane and peaceful atmosphere of a new world based on true democracy, when the historians will record the events connected with the present holocaust brought abóut by selfishness and lust for power, the phase of the present passive resistance in Norway will form one of the most graphic and stirring chapters. It has been truly stated in an American journal recently that Norway is the only country in the world where the Nazis are on the defensive and that in spite of all their ruthlessness the representatives of the one hundred million master-race' quite often take a beating literally and symbolically at the hands of their 3,000,000 "Norwegian subjects', of the Gestapo, "Perhaps you are sitting 1n a restaurant reading Often It might just as well be Tidens because they are all alike, In paper you will find, for example, Mu interview with yourself as the chief of the corn monopoly, In this interview, in an indignant manner, you kill all these evil rumours to the Yui prior to the

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