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...underground factory was a product of the war. When the Germans came to Podmokly (which they called Bodenbach) they seized the Krizek Works, Czechoslovakia's largest producer of copper wire, the area was rich in coal and hydroelectric power, and had excellent communication facilities. Later they imported French, Belgian and Russian laborers, and set them to work expanding the Krizek plants. Laboratories were built, buildings enlarged, new units erected. One of the new units was put underground, and was supersecret. It was known simply as "the Weser...
Apparently certain financial interests had been attempting to get control of Eldorado's uranium and to sell it, contrary to wartime metals regulations, for private profit. There were, moreover, reasons to suspect that attempts had been made to form an international uranium cartel involving Eldorado and Belgian Congo uranium interests. To get at the facts, a Toronto chartered accountant, J. Grant Glassco, had been appointed last May as chief investigator...
...Belgian-born, 42-year-old Georges Simenon (real name: Georges Sim) is one of the world's most prolific authors. Before turning to "serious" fiction (of which The Shadow Falls is supposedly an example) he wrote 300-odd pulp novels and thrillers, including the stories which made his Inspector Maigret one of fiction's most famed detectives. But last spring the gumshoe was on the other foot. Sleuthhound Simenon was snapped up by Paris police and indicted. The charge: "intelligence with the enemy" during the German occupation...
...Belgian Foreign Minister this week expressed his country's desire for close understanding between France and Great Britain and for the entry of Belgium into a western European grouping within a system of collective security. . . . The reorganization of eastern Europe is in hand and a comparable movement in the west would complete the process. ... In the forefront of immediate purposes stands the question of an Anglo-French alliance. . . . [But] Europe can prosper only as a whole and nothing could be more disquieting and reactionary than partnerships or associations smacking of rival blocs. The momentous alliance between Great Britain...
King without a Country. Belgium's tall, balding, repudiated King Leopold III was winding up an enforced St. Wolfgang vacation which had really been no vacation at all-just a parade of visiting politicians and prelates exhorting him to return to, or keep out of Belgium. But the Belgian Parliament had decided that he should not come home to Brussels. Last week the Swiss Government gave him permission to move into Switzerland, probably to his late father's chateau on Lake Lucerne. It was from there that he had set out ten years ago on the fatal motor...