Speech in Trondheim, November 16, 1941: Swedish False Reports

Extract from a speech to Hirden in Trondheim's square, November 16, 1941

By Gulbrand Lunde.

It is no use today to be "neutral". Only those who completely take a stand for the national cause are counted.In the intensified political struggle we are now entering, it holds true that anyone not standing with us is against us.

The same that in this way applies to the individual individuals in society also applies to the peoples. Those who refuse to contribute to the fight against Europe’s enemies cannot expect to play a role in shaping the new Europe.

Not only do the Swedish people stand outside the life-and-death struggle that is going on between Nordic culture and Asian Bolshevism, but the Swedish press opposes the new arrangement and continues its traffic in serving lies about Norway and slandering the national movement.

What do you say to the fact that the Swedish ruling party's main body in Stockholm on November 7th with large equipment brings a message from its alleged correspondent in Oslo that the Nasjonal Samling's national leadership had ordered the removal of all NS members from criminal records, and new members would automatically be excluded from such records upon joining. And the next day, the same newspaper publishes a mean caricature to illustrate this. We don't even need to deny that kind of thing. We need not deny the obvious—everyone knows that the opposite is true, and it is the Swedish government body that is responsible for these actions.

And this same government body serves its readers, through its correspondent in London, a greeting from Nygaardsvold to Quisling of such a nature that most people, apart from this body's editorial staff, would consider themselves too good to serve such a thing.

The Swedish press also dares to say that we are the ones attacking Sweden. We, for our part, have always considered ourselves too good to use such low-level funds. What would Sweden say if the Norwegian press began to honor the Swedish Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, and call him a Jewish lackey? Or what would the Swedes say if they could read in Norwegian newspapers that most living men in the social democratic party, the government party, were convicted persons? Or what would the Swedes say to the fact that the Norwegian press, from the fact that people had started eating fox meat in Sweden, would infer that the Swedish people were on the brink of famine?

It is precisely the kind of messages the Swedish press serves its readers about Norway!