Word: belgians
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...Dutch in the occupied territory causes the Dutch in the free world to think of surrendering. Belgium is an occupied country, her King and her Army are prisoners of war, her people subject to all the indignities and reprisals of the Nazi conqueror. But the Belgian Empire overseas continues to be at war with Hitler...
...from Libya and possibly the Middle East and Turkey toward Egypt and Suez; 2) from Libya down through French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola (by transport plane) toward British South Africa; 3) from Spain and Spanish Morocco across Weygand's Morocco and West Africa (by persuasion or force) toward Dakar. The road to Dakar has already been improved and Dakar is the strongest fortress on the Atlantic coast of Africa...
...their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
William C. Bullitt sent a box of food to imprisoned ex-Premier Paul Reynaud. "I cannot send you guns," he wrote, "but here is some butter." Crotchety old Bachelor James C. McReynolds, longtime Supreme Court Justice, "adopted" 32 British children, one Belgian. Dorothy Thompson arrived in England for a month's visit "to see my friends . . . for pleasure . . . to know what the British are thinking." Expatriate Novelist Kay Boyle flew across from Lisbon with her family of seven-biggest family the Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale...
...Clear sky to the west," wrote Leske as the Germans plunged through the Belgian lines. "Below we saw some burned-out French planes. Moranes, I think. On all the roads German troops. Then nothing at all. No sign of the enemy. It was as though the world had gone to bed," he adds disgustedly. It was more fun later: "Bombed Brussels and Antwerp again. People were running out of the houses. Trying to escape. . . . Some of them have bicycles. Some are pushing baby carriages. When we get low enough we strafe them. Then they all throw themselves into the ditch...