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...taken for granted in Berlin that to win the war, the invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased German remarked last week: "We'll take England by employing the same method we used in taking Eben Emael"-the key Belgian fort, which was subdued by treachery, flame, bombs, parachutists, gliders, above all, by surprise...
From Chicago, through no miles of sleet and snow, drove Manager Leon Perssion and one of the finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window...
...Nazi diplomat, and the story of a refugee Jewess. There is a quarrel between a pregnant bride, eager for placid home life, and her Jewish husband who has a confused desire for some active role in Democracy's defense. At length, after what seems hours of talk, a Belgian woman, whose husband has been blinded and her child maimed by German bombs, becomes momentarily crazed and attempts to shoot the Nazi emissary-something that would never happen on Bill Winston's Pan American Clipper. The bullet wounds the young Jewish husband. Toward the end the liberal author reaches...
This added another 902,082 square miles to the broad belt of Central Africa which has cast its lot with Britain. The Belgian Congo lies squarely between De Gaullist French Equatorial Africa and the British colonies of Kenya and Tanganyika, but is too wild a region to become a corridor for operations between the two. The Belgian Government in London prepared to mobilize all Belgians abroad, between the ages of 18 and 35, to strengthen the Congo's defenses...
Gadfly Shinwell then gave some pertinent figures to back up his claim that shipping losses were "ominous": in 14 war months Britain has lost 2,500,000 tons of shipping, plus more than half a million tons of Belgian and Dutch shipping, bringing the total beyond 3,000,000 tons. Since the beginning of July, shipping losses have been at the rate of 4,000,000 tons a year. Against this the Admiralty's shipbuilding program aimed at only 1,250,000 tons in the first war year, and even this figure was not reached. Lord Beaverbrook had upped...