QUISLING AND RUSSIA
EVIDENCE OF FEAR OF PLOT LONDON, September 5. A surprise witness for the defence, Rector Ullman, said at the resumed trial of Quisling today that Quisling feared Russia in January, 1940, and charged the present Foreign Minister, Mr. Trygve Lie, with conspiring with leading Bolsheviks to seize Norway. Ullman testified that he met Quisling three months before the German invasion of Norway. Quisling after raving about a Russian plot to conquer Norway, accused Lie, asserting: "There is an armed plot to seize power in Norway in which Russia will use the Norwegian Government as puppets." Counsel for the defence, Mr. Bergh, referred to a cablegram Quisling sent Mr. Chamberlain in October, 1939, expressing on behalf of all the Nordic countries the hope that Mr. Chamberlain would stop a fratricidal war between England and Germany. Mr. Bergh said that Quisling received a most amiable reply from Mr. Chamberlain. Counsel contended that Quisling was determined to save Norway the suffering he had seen in Russia, Quisling made proposals for establishing peaceful conditions in Europe by uniting Britain, France and Germany.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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