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...Germans used them. They used them in a new way. In a war of movement!" "Ah, mon vieux, comme vous etes naif!" said an old French general. "A war of movement across the dry Polish plains, oui! But through the Ardennes, through the Dutch floods, through the Belgian defenses, through the Maginot . . . c'est ridicule...
...resigned and enlisted with the Finns, for two months serving in the infantry and in the airforce, until peace was declared in March. He reached Oslo less than a week before Nickolas von Falkenhausen, Hitler's invading general, and he departed from the German-infested city with a Belgian friend in a vain attempt to join the Norwegian army by traveling through Sweden...
...Vancouver, B. C. one day last week, a plump little Belgian lady in her 405 boarded a train bound east across the prairie toward Montreal. She was Anne Françoise Cox, Jimmy's bride of four years, on her way to Britain with Jimmy's ashes. To the wall of her compartment she had clipped Jimmy's picture. Jimmy's big Afghan dog was curled up on the berth...
...engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents had arrested the Military Governor at Brazzaville. Appointed by General de Gaulle Commander of the French Equatorial African Land, Sea and Air Forces, he can threaten Italian Libya across her undefended southern frontier, perhaps block Axis plans for a backdoor entrance into central Africa...
Halifax, on Nova Scotia's southeast coast, was the departure point for convoys in World War I, was leveled on the morning of Dec. 6, 1917, when the French freighter Mont Blanc, loaded with T.N.T., blew up after a collision with the Belgian relief ship Imo. Today Halifax's fine harbor is Britian's convoy point once again, reputedly has been made into a good naval base as well. From its seaplane and land air bases, Canuck pilots fly out to sea on convoy escort and submarine patrol. Nova Scotia is heavily wooded, is connected with...