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...kouprey is the first new genus of large living mammal to be discovered since the Okapi was found by Sir Harry Johnston in the Belgian Congo...
...said to have occurred about the time Dictator Franco decided to play put-&-take with his brother-in-law. The then Spanish Foreign Minister, Colonel Juan Beigbeder, was said to have rushed to the Generalissimo in a passion because transit visas through Spain which he had given to Refugee Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot and Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo, "I gave my word of honor that they...
...Germany did not gain materially in wartime industrial strength, Britain lost enough to make Germany's conquests worthwhile. She lost access to Sweden's iron ore, Norway's refined and processed metals, dairy products from Denmark and The Netherlands, Scandinavian timber, Belgian steel, bauxite from France. But so long as she controlled the seas, had bottoms to carry goods in, ports to unload them at, she could call on the Empire and the Americas to replace what the Nazis had taken. In the folds of Britain's Pennine Range were 19% of the world...
Once he shot a fifth columnist spreading disorganization among the Belgian refugees. Once he went to Arras for information for General Blanchard and came close to getting trapped while two British officers held him over whiskey and "good stories." A Belgian fortress officer told him how treachery had robbed him of a third of his troops the night before the invasion. He was given dispatches to General Weygand, dodged a Panzer column and got through Dunkirk, out to Britain and back to Paris. When Calais fell he was on a train to London, watching the English boys in their towns...
...most hair raising experience took place in the Belgian Congo when he was poaching elephants. Since elephant tusks weigh 400 to 500 pounds and ivory is worth $2.50 to $5.00 a pound, many hunters took advantage of the weak administration in the Congo to shoot elephants illegally. Elephant hunting can be very dangerous because although the huge beasts are clumsy and have poor eyesight, they have a keen smell and become infuriated at the presence...