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...Dover (22 mi.) is a project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground and thousand more in the sky relentlessly pressed the trap...
...When the Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
Wrote Louis Lochner, as he passed through desolate towns laid waste by Nazi bombers: "In no Belgian community through which we have crossed this week . . . have I noticed more hatred in people's eyes than in Aerschot, ten miles northeast of Louvain. . . . I suppose the population takes me for a German. If looks could have killed, I would be a corpse today. . . ." Said a Belgian woman, wife of a soldier at the front, to Frederick Oechsner: "I must say the attitude of the German soldiers has been very correct and orderly...
...England machine-tool maker uses 100 carats a year (current price: $10-$50 per carat); the annual diamond bill of Detroit is in the millions. Hence many a U. S. industrialist had another reason for worrying about the news from Europe last week. The disruption of the Dutch and Belgian industry seemed sure to boost prices on industrial diamonds-some thought by as much as 250%. But worse than that: the conquest of England could tie the entire world diamond industry into a Nazi-controlled sheepshank...
...mining company. As boss of both ends of Britain's diamond cartel, he always lets his left hand know what his right is doing. When buyers get languid, Sir Ernest's tight little combination turns off the diamond supply like a kitchen tap. The supply: British and Belgian Africa, whose "pipes" (blue clay mines) and alluvial deposits yield 97% of the world's output. The other 3%, including black diamonds, is sifted haphazardly by natives from river alluvium in Brazil...