PROF. HAUGEN LAMBASTS LELAND STOWE'S ARTICLE ON 'NORWEGIAN TRAITORS'
Prof. Haugen Lamhasts Leland Slowe's Article On 'Norwegian Traitors' l. W. Profesor Talks At May 1 7th Celebration Here War Correspondent Leland Stowe's sensational story on the part which...
...The university professor said it was hard for those who realized how much Norwegians valued their independence to believe Stowe's report that Norwegians were "stupidly unaware or indifferent to what was going on...
...May Demand Canada "We've gotten over the idea that Germany isn't apt to attack us," the Rev...
...He branded the American correspondent's report from Oslo as "hurried and misleading...
...Any organization which attempts or plans to control a majority by force has no right to exist," he said...
...The jceasion was the celebration of Norway's Independence day...
...If England is defeated, it's easily possible that the Germans may demand Canada, and then who have we got for neighbors but the conquerors of Norway...
...The speaker, who only recently visited Norway, said Norwegians had realized they had little hope in resistance but trusted the out-of-the-way location of their little country would be insurance against war...
...The new agreement covers a 20-year period...
...LeLand Stowe made the most of his time in Oslo...
...After four days, he wired back a truly amazing story...
...Contrary to the report by Stowe and other correspondents, Haugen denied that the Oslo fjord had been mined, or that Norway had adequate arms for resisting the Nazi invasion...
...Pointing out members of his audience knew the Norwegian people weren't "cowards or softies" and were capable of real resistance, the speaker challenged Stowe's story as being a hasty conclusion...
...He said Norway was not prepared to contest with a modern military machine...
...How many days did well-armed Holland last...
...The speaker's platform was draped in Norwegian and American flags...
...Madison's Norsemen were pondering the reports that their homeland had fallen in dishonor before Adolf Hitler's "Fifth column...
...Haugen Lamhasts Leland Slowe's Article On 'Norwegian Traitors' l. W. Profesor Talks At May 1 7th Celebration Here War Correspondent Leland Stowe's sensational story on the part which Norwegian traitors played in the recent Nazi invasion was branded "a colossal example of a foreigner's failure to understand the psychology of a people," by Prof...
...Haugen's ensuing attack on the validity of the newspaper reports...
...Payment for power by the district will be at the rate of $17.50 per kilowatt year...
...It is a gigantic mechanical industry, and soldiers are cogs not heroes...
...Four contracts have beep -xecuted with PUDs in the slate of S snington...
...What of the incredible success by Germany against the French and British these past few days...
...Haugen said...
...It is a well-known fact that there are more Nazis in Sweden, in Denmark and in this very country than there were in Norway," Dr...
...which now serves the area...
...The problem of modern warfare is not one of heroism nor of cowardice," Prof...
...Many of the questions which he raised were answered in Prof...
...The fall of Norway was due to diabolical German cleverness which took advantage of traditional Norwegian traits," Dr...
...Stowe s story which was re-pnnt-ed and quoted by the American press was published in full by The Capital Times...
...Thompson quoted liberally from reports by American correspondents in an attempt to answer the question of the reason for the fall of Norway...
...The other speaker on the program, the Rev...
...Haugen pointed out...
...Haugen challenged the report by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, co-authors of The Washington Merry -go-Round, daily column in The Capital Times, that the "uppercrust" of Norwegian society were strongly pro-Nazi and had something to do with Norway's fall...
...Einar Haugen in an emotion-filled address before nearly 300 Madison Norse people last week...
...The Norwegian clergyman urged his audience to be on the watch for those who would like to take liberty aw-ay...
...He pointed out the wealthy Norwegians had closer ties with the trading life of the British empire...
...Haugen said...
...The Fifth column and Trojan Horse activities of which we have heard so much had no bearing- on the fall of Norway...
...Haugen declared...
...It was Bonneville s first contract with an Oregon district...
...Syt-tende Mai,' by Norwegian people all over the world, but the spirit of this year's meeting, called by Idun lodge of the Sons of Norway, was definitely one of madness and solemnity...
...Because Tillamook's contemplated purchase of the Mountain States system will include a steam generating plant, which can be used for standby and peaking purposes, the district also will be eligible to receive Bonneville dump energy, when needed and available, at U cent pet-kilowatt hour...
...Denies Report Dr...
...We have the polls for deciding whether we want to be Fascist or Communist " The Rev...
...Henry Thompson, pastor of two churches in the historic Kosh-konong area, said Pres...
...If Germany wants room for 100,000,000 Germans, I know where she could put a lot of them...
...The speaker, who opened and closed his stirring speech with a poem in the Norwegian language, brought applause from his audience when he promised Norway would again win her independence...
...people's utility district signed a contract last week for the purchase of a minimum of 2,000 kilowatts of prime power from the Bonneville power administration...
...Initial delivery will be upon completion of Bonneville's Tillamook transmission line, now under survey, and upon acquisition by the district for a power distribution system...
...Roosevelt had the 100 per cent support of every American in his proposal for re-arming the United States...
...Tillamook, is negotiating for the purchase of the electric generating and distribution properties of the Mountain States Power Co...
...Haugen, head of the department of Scandinavian languages and literature at the university, changed sad faces to smiling ones as he challenged the truth of reports by Stowe, correspondent lor the Chicago Daily News, and gave his own reason why Norwegians failed to turn their land into "a flaming battlefield...
...The Grieg Male chorus, Madison's Norwegian singers, directed by John Oregon Utility District Signs Power Contract PORTLAND, Ore—The Tillamook county (Ore...
...Only a Small Part" "For your own comfort I wish to state that Norwegian traitors played only a small part in the downfall of Norway," Dr...
...Thompson declared...
...Provision also is made for the interchange of surplus power by both systems...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 21
