Shrinking Festung

To Stockholm last week came word of Nazi jitters in Norway. Four major power projects--at Vemark in the Rjukan Valley, Saude near Stavanger, Tysse east of Bergen and in the Glomfjord--each with nonferrous metal-producing facilities, have been abandoned by Nazi say-so. The reports spoke of four more such projects dropped. Estimated value: 300 to 500 million crowns ($60,000,000 to $100,000,000), furnished by Norwegian banks at the mouths of Nazi Mausers.

Cabled TIME Correspondent John Scott: "It would be incorrect to conclude that the Germans plan to abandon Norway without a fight."

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