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Princess Josephine Charlotte, Prince Baudouin and Prince Albert, children of Belgium's King Leopold III, fled from France to Portugal in a caravan headed by onetime Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland. Accompanied by members of the Bourbon-Parma family, onetime Empress Zita of Austria and her son Archduke Otto, pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, and five of his brothers & sisters arrived the next night. Already in jampacked Lisbon was Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot. En route was onetime French Premier and Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Also on the way was onetime Austrian millionaire Baron Eugen Rothschild and his American...
Refugees whose whereabouts were unknown: French Trade Union Leader Leon Jouhaux and Belgian Walter Schevenels, secretary to the International Federation of Trade Unions; British Novelist and World War I Intelligence Officer William Somerset Maugham (last heard of just before German entry into Paris, where he was working for the British Information Ministry); some 120 German and Austrian writers in France, most of them expatriated and sought by the Gestapo, including Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel. A five-day-old message from English Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, received by his daughter, described everything as normal in his French villa...
...something of the Belgian lines of defense less than a month before May 10th. They were stronger than I had supposed. ... I was convinced that no army in the world could break them inside of two weeks. In the event, it was more nearly a matter of two hours...
...able to study a certain sector of the 'Little Maginot Line' even more closely than the Belgian positions. ... I should have said that it was even stronger than the Belgian positions. But it lasted no longer...
...fact that the Germans were able to break the Belgian positions in two places-where, incidentally, they seemed to be strongest-and the 'Little Maginot Line,' is not simply an incidental surprise of this war. Its real meaning is that fundamentally our concepts of basic military facts are proved to be largely in error...