The Archive · 1940

King Haakon Broadcasts To Norwegians

Denies Report of Leaving British Isles

London, Aug. 27 King Haakon of Norway, broadcasting in the Norwegian news programme of the British Broadcasting Cor poration last night, denied that he had gone to America "The fact that I am speaking +o Norwegian listeners from London is excellent proof. that rumours should not be believed. I have heard today. for instance, that I had left London and gone to America, owing to differences of opinion with the British Government.

"From the place where we are now we can still represent a free Norway. Our action was also determined by the fact that it is clear to me and my Government that the only possibility of re-creating a free Norway lay in a victory of the side which stands for the right of small nations lead their own lives."—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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