Editing Quisling (section)

==Popularization in World War II==
The use of the name as a term for collaborators or traitors in general probably came about upon [[Quisling regime#1940 coup|Quisling's unsuccessful 1940 coup d'état]], when he attempted to seize power and make Norway cease resisting the invading Germans. The term was widely introduced to an English-speaking audience by the British newspaper ''[[The Times]]''. It published an editorial on 19 April 1940 titled "Quislings everywhere", in which it was asserted that "To writers, the word Quisling is a gift from the gods. If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor... they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters. Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous." The ''[[Daily Mail]]'' picked up the term four days after ''The Times'' editorial was published. ''[[The War Illustrated]]'' discussed "potential Quislings" among the Dutch during the [[German invasion of the Netherlands]]. Subsequently, the BBC brought the word into common use internationally.<ref name="Krisleksicon" /><ref name="WarIllustrated" />

[[Chips Channon]] described how during the [[Norway Debate]] of 7–8 May 1940, he and other Conservative MPs who supported [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] [[Neville Chamberlain]] called those who voted against a [[motion of no confidence]] "Quislings".<ref name="jefferys1995" /> Chamberlain's successor [[Winston Churchill]] used the term while addressing a [[Declaration of St James's Palace|conference of Allied delegates]] at [[St. James's Palace]] on 12 June 1941, when he said:<ref name="Churchill" /> "A vile race of Quislings—to use a new word which will carry the scorn of mankind down the centuries—is hired to fawn upon the conqueror, to collaborate in his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves." He used the term again in an [[Winston Churchill's address to Congress (1941)|address]] to both houses of [[United States Congress|Congress]] in the United States of America on 26 December 1941.<ref name="DailyStar" /> Commenting upon the effect of a number of [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] victories against [[Axis forces]], and moreover the United States' decision to enter the war, Churchill opined: "Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader. And still more fiercely burn the fires of hatred and contempt for the filthy Quislings whom he has suborned."<ref name="Churchill2" /> The term subsequently entered the language and became a target for political cartoonists.<ref name="BitsOfNews" />

In his work ''The Yugoslav peoples fight to live'', [[Josip Broz Tito]] made several descriptions of his enemies as Quislings, including [[Milan Nedić|General Milan Nedić]] ("the Serbian Quisling") and [[Ante Pavelić|Dr. Ante Pavelić]] ("the criminal Croatian Quisling ... a creature of [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]] and [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]").<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tito |first1=Josip Broz |title=The Yugoslav peoples fight to live |date=June 1944 |publisher=The United Committee of South-Slav Americans |location=New York |page=7 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1477&context=prism}}</ref>

In the United States, it was used often. In the [[Warner Bros.]] cartoon ''[[Tom Turk and Daffy]]'' (1944), it was uttered by a Thanksgiving turkey whose presence is betrayed to [[Porky Pig]] by [[Daffy Duck]]. In the American film [[Edge of Darkness (1943 film)|''Edge of Darkness'']] (1943), about the Resistance in Norway, the heroine's brother is often described as a quisling.

===Verb form===
The [[back-formation|back-formed]] verb, ''to quisle'' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|ɪ|z|əl}}) exists,<ref name="Boliger" /><ref name="OED" /> and gave rise to a much less common version of the noun: ''quisler''.<ref name="MerriamWebster" /><ref name="OED2" /> However, the verb form was rare even during World War&nbsp;II<ref name=Mencken/> and has entirely disappeared from contemporary usage.<ref name=Boliger/>