Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and a sick Belgian officer into the back of their truck, they lit out for Addis Ababa. Just as they left town the hillsides behind them flashed like a thousand fireflies with blazing rifles. Aeroplane-directed Galla warriors marched into deserted Dessye, followed by Fascist legions two days later...
...capital. Twenty minutes later a sharp-eyed outlook fired a warning gun from the hilltop by the royal palace. Soon ten planes came over the eastern horizon. Traders and warriors in the town rushed into their compounds, blazed away at the sky with ancient muskets, double-barreled elephant guns, Belgian trade rifles, all with no apparent effect. For 15 minutes the Italian planes circled at an altitude of 6,000 feet. Then two broke away, dived at the airport with machine guns spitting alternate bursts of hard and incendiary bullets...
...British Cabinet listened to Mr. Eden, then coldly agreed that the staff conversations with France and Belgium must begin soon and if possible in London, decided further to send letters to the French and Belgian Governments guaranteeing Britain's assistance in case of war. Mr. Eden announced that the German Peace Plan, though far from satisfactory, was certainly "conciliatory." Could not Germany, Mr. Eden asked, promise at least not to fortify the Rhineland during the period of negotiation? Ambassador von Ribbentrop thought not. Anyway, he said, four months was obviously too short a time in which to match...
...Many a Belgian family living near the German frontier crammed its movable possessions hastily into suitcases, took the first train and fled when Adolf Hitler ruptured the Treaty of Versailles by sending German soldiers goose-stepping into the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). Last week a few of the boldest of such Belgians had gone back to their homes. They felt excited as they looked across the frontier and saw German soldiers standing guard for the first time since the Rhineland was demilitarized 17 years ago. What small Belgium wanted to know was whether Great Britain could be counted...
...London a procedure for dealing firmly with Germany's violation had just made its appearance in the form of a British White Paper (TIME, March 30). Returning from London to Brussels Premier Paul van Zeeland rose in the Belgian Chamber. "For the first time in history the British Government has defined in advance the course it would take in a given emergency," he cried. ''This unprecedented step was due to the fact that Belgium has so clearly given [Germany] no excuse for breaking the Locarno Treaty...