Page "Haakon VII of Norway" Paragraph 26

Nils Hjelmtveit, Minister of Church and Education, later wrote: " This made a great impression on us all.

More clearly than ever before we could see the man behind the words ; the king who had drawn a line for himself and his task, a line from which he could not deviate.

We had through the five years government learned to respect and appreciate our king and now, through his words, he came to us as a great man, just and forceful ; a leader in these fatal times to our country ".