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Belgium, like The Netherlands, was victimized by the occupation-mark technique. By the first of this year 1,500 locomotives and the country's entire stock of 75,000 trucks had been taken. The Vichy Government complacently surrendered $260,000,000 in Belgian gold reserves to Germany...
...most promising of the remaining U.S. orchestras as the season opened were: the Chicago (Belgian-born Désiré De-fauw succeeded the late Frederick Stock) ; Cleveland (Austrian-born Erich Leinsdorf, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera House, succeeded the Philharmonic's Rodzinski); Minneapolis (Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; San Francisco (Pierre Monteux) ; Cincinnati (Eugene Goossens); St. Louis (Vladimir Golschmann); Detroit (U.S.-born Karl Krueger had managed to pull things together again after the orchestra became the temporary charge of Sam's Cut-Rate, Inc.-TIME, Oct. 19); Los Angeles (U.S.-born Alfred Wallenstein succeeded a string of guests); National Symphony...
Sirs: The following is a quotation in a letter written to Colonel E. M. House by Brand Whitlock, then Minister and later Ambassador to Belgium. The letter was written from Havre and dated Sept. 19, 1917: "... I have opportunities to talk with a great many military men, Belgian, English, French and they all unite on this: if America can send over preponderating squadrons of aircraft, the scales of battle will be quickly turned. ... I do not pretend to know anything about the art or science of war, if it is either, but I think I know something about the German...
...strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique); Russia (Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky); the U.S. (America the Beautiful, the old European psalm-tune Old Hundred, Home Sweet Home and Ballad for Americans...
...Belgian King Honored...