Lebensraum

Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Fuehrer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Fuehrer Quisling saw a large expanse of territory upon which no dictator had planted his flag--the South Pole.

He called in his new Propaganda Minister Gudbrand Lunde and a Goebbels campaign in miniature began. The Antarctic was and would always be Norwegian, proclaimed Stooge Lunde, because for centuries Norwegian whalers had visited there. Norwegians had led the way to the South Pole. The U. S. was a rich plutocrat trying to jump Norway's claim.

A Professor of Polar Geography was installed at Oslo University to acquaint Norwegians with their new colony.

To peace-loving Norwegians the Quisling noise went unheeded because for perhaps the first time their interest was turning to guns which could be turned against Quisling and his protectors. Nazi police who hung their bayonet and pistol belts with their overcoats in cafes lost them, and Nazi soldiers mysteriously murdered at night were always found minus rifle, side arms and ammunition. Stockholm's Dagens Nyketer reported from Oslo that Nazi arms were disappearing so rapidly that it was necessary to place special guards around supply dumps and ships.

A Government decree was issued prohibiting possession not only of firearms but even knives. While Quisling was out to get Lebensraum, many Norwegians were out to get Quisling.

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