NORWEGIAN SINGER
DEALINGS WITH GERMANS ALLEGED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 15.
Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian soprano, who arrived on Friday from Europe for a concert tour, was to-day accused by the Norwegian Ambassador iMr Wilhelm Morgenstierne) of having German connivance in 1941 in her return to Nazi-occupied Norway. Mr Morgenstierne said that Kirsten Flagstad went home to “her Quisling husband/’ . . Interviewed. Kirsten Flagstad deniea charges that she was pro-German. or had connived with the Germans. §ne insisted that she returned to Norway to be with her husband. Henry Johansen. In reply to questions she admit* ted that she did not give aid or monev to the Norwegian underground and no contact with it. She said she intended to apply for American citizenship. . .tuS Her husband died in Norway in x**’ while awaiting trial on charges of cmiaborating with the Germans- —>
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25135, 17 March 1947, Page 6
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