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...engineers have now rebuilt 1,500 miles of French railroads and 100 rail bridges which had been wrecked by pre-invasion bombing, by saboteurs or by the fleeing enemy. Much U.S. rolling stock has been put ashore, but 60% of the locomotives and freight cars are French, Italian, Dutch, Belgian and German. Some old U.S. freight cars left in France after the last war have been retrieved and put back to work...
...pretender, but a newly-minted Regent of Belgium was Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, younger brother of captive King Leopold. For three months before the liberation, the Gestapo hunted high & low for Prince Charles. They could have found him, fighting with the Belgian Maquis in the High Ardennes. When he turned up at the Royal Palace in Brussels last week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L Montgomery, on the road to Berlin, was wearing the same brown sweater he had worn on the road to Dunkerque in 1940-thanks to some Belgian monks who had found the sweater in the city of Louvain and kept it safe from moths and Nazis...
Dangerous Journey (20th Century-Fox) is a travel picture made by Armand and Leila Roosevelt Denis, producers of the magnificent Dark Rapture (1938). Among its glimpses of the Belgian Congo, the Ganges, Ceylon and Burma there are only a few shots which, in the words of Baedeker, need detain the tourist. But these few make the picture worth seeing. Best...
...fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch slave labor gangs barricaded themselves in their barracks, sang their national anthems. The SS apparently lacked the men to stop them. Elsewhere foreign workers were stepping up sabotage by slowing down production...