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382 also be joined by other countries in that part of the European continent. The two Governments are resolved already now to co-operate closely for the defence of their common interests and for the preparation of the future association of the two countries.

II

The two Governments stigmatise the cynical farce which the leaders of Nazi Germany are endeavouring to stage by proclaiming themselves the builders of a new European Order. The hypocrisy of these assertions is most clearly revealed in the light of German endeavours aiming at the destruction of our two ancient nations, which have contributed their important share to the common treasure of human civilisation. The violence and cruelty to which our two nations are being subjected, the expulsions of the native populations from large areas of its secular homelands, the banishing of hundreds of thousands of men and women to the interior of Germany as forced labour, mass executions and deportations to concentration camps, the plundering of public and private property, the extermination of the intellectual class and. of all manifestations of cultural life, the spoliation of the treasures of science and art and the persecution of all religious beliefs, are unparalleled in all human history. They offer a striking example of the spirit and methods of the German New Order.

The two Governments address this burning appeal to all free people immune from the German terror, that in the measure of their strength they should help the nations allied in the struggle for the freedom of all nations and the deliverance of the world from its present monstrous nightmare. 

 REGULATION for the provisional Administration of the Faroe Islands.—May 9, 1940 

(Translation)

In accordance with the decision of the Fgroya Lggting, I, the undersigned, Governor of the Faroe Islands, enact and proclaim as follows :—

1. The laws, decrees and regulations in force at the time of the coming into force of this statute shall remain in force in so far as present circumstances permit.

