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...next splendid stop was at a French village near Tours. Gracious as King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want...
Scotsman Ogilvy, born in Britain, then and now a British subject, served the U. S. as a soldier in the Spanish-American War, but never got beyond Jacksonville, Fla. He served Britain as a captain of Brabant's Horse in the Boer War and won the Distinguished Service Order. At 53 he served Britain again in World War I (1914-15) as a lieutenant of Scottish Horse...
...views and wishes" held by General van Overstraeten, they decided the following: "1) If the German forces attacked Holland but did not come south of Nijmegen and the Rhine, Belgium would not move; 2) if the German advance were directed south of Nijmegen and especially across Dutch Brabant, Belgium would order immediate general mobilization and declare that her own security was threatened." The German Ambassador in Brussels telephoned Berlin the gist of Belgium's decision. "The news from Brussels was received when Generals Keitel, Reichenau and Blaskowitz were assembled in Berlin for a final conference to settle the last...
...Gogh was not a Frenchman. He was born in Zundert, Brabant province, The Netherlands, son of a Dutch clergyman and his wife, Anna Cornelia. It is true that his distinctive yellow coloring was developed during his residence...
Three months ago President Roosevelt read in his morning papers that Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, had become King of the Belgians. There was no doubt of it whatever in his mind, for the Press carried pictures of the ceremony. But Belgium was not sure that the President had read the papers. Nor was she sure that the President would believe Ambassador May should he call at the White House with the news...