Show Not Nol By SAMUEL D. D HALES OSLO Aug 20 UP Vidkun UP-VIdkun Vidkun Quisling second of t Adolf Hitler's E European puppet leaders ra to tot go on trial for hIs hIs' Ufe pleaded not guilty to treason Monday and nd denied dented he Had any adv advance nce knowledge of ot Germanys Germany's plan to Invade Norway In 1910 1940 The pale shabby man whose name has become a a symbol for traitors and puppets throughout the world uttered his plea pIca in n a ringing voi voice e after listening to three supreme court judges read the long Jong indictment against him See r Page 6 S 3 I QU Sl NG Continued from Page Pago C One Onen in n relays for almost half alt an hour Special Prosecutor outlined the states state's case casc Ho He revealed tha that statements from Hermann Goering former ormer German Supreme Commander Comman- Comman der er Marshal Wilhelm Keitel former former for for- mer German Chief of ot Staff Co Col Gen Jen Gustav Jodl Jo-dl and later ster Alfred Rosenberg leading Jew Jew-baiter lter had been obtained obtained ob- ob by Norwegian investigators and nd would be introduced Same Sume Oro Ordeal 1 Thus Quisling began the same ordeal from which former Marshal Henri Philippe Petain Hitler's puppet chief of ot state in tn France emerged only last week in Paris with a death sentence later commuted commuted commuted com com- muted to life imprisonment Quisling submitted as part of ofIs his him Is defense a long memoir and so- so soliloquy soliloquy he had written in his him prison c cell ell U while awaiting trial In I it he denied that he had prep prepared pre- pre p pared red ared any coup against the government government gov- gov to coincide with the German German German Ger Ger- man invasion and demanded complete complete com- com lete exoneration All AU asses give the dying lion Uon lionts Us its ts kick he told the court I Iemand 1 demand rehabilitation and indemnification for the insult and harm inflicted upon me me Blames Blanes Britain Ho He blamed Britain's mining of I waters for the German Germau attacK on Norway Word of the British mining reached him April 8 1940 and later that day he said Baid reports come through that German German Ger Ger- man transports were en route The Germans landed April 9 0 I felt only an irrepressible Inner Iner Inner In- In ner er obligation to h help lp my country In n its lb present emergency he ha said aid We Vve had no list of cabinet ministers which also goes to show that it Was Was' no prepared coup Formation of a a. government that would work with the Germans German not only saved Norway from further destruction and md death he ho said eaid but deterred Hitler from also ahio ing ng Sweden II As far flir as oM the Germani Germans otherwise otherwise other other- M wise e are concerned h he said it ita itis is a a fact that the from the he first was opposed to our tannIng form form- lag Ing ng a government and to our un un- They would have preferred pre- pre tarred erred a R clear field of operations for or themselves No Support He said Mid he ha long had hat believed ed that hat Norway should make peace with G Germany aEY but had b been en unable e before eiore the ine German invasion to win to-win win sufficient support in the government government government govern govern- ment for or hi his hla vl views w Quisling said Bald he first met Hitler Hitler Hit- Hit ler cr in 1939 and I 1 had the Impre- Impre impression sion slon t that at he ha right away way took a strong trong personal liking to me The Tho former premier was wu charged specIfically in the original indictment Indictment Indictment indict Indict- ment with treason manslaughter responsibility for tor the deaths death of more than Norwegians defiance a ance nc Norway's of-Norway's of constitution collaboration col- col with Germany and theft and embezzlement of ot millions of ot dollars dollar in funds and property A supplementary indictment read at the opening of ot the trial by y the presiding Justice Erik So So- lern em asserted that Quisling was willing to let him himself and h his hla l par party y prepare the German invasion Inva- Inva ilon sion and received ad advance ad nce fi financial financial fl- fl aid for this project from Germany In addition to the three supreme court justices four civilian judges selected by lot sat oat on on n th the benchIn bench In n judgment of f Quisling They were two barbers a pl plumber a ala la- la laborer la laborer borer and a chemical worker with one an alternate |