Word: canals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of Germany's invasion of the Low Countries) were pocketed together with the remainder of the Belgian Army-500,000 French, 200,000 British, 400,000 Belgians and a few thousand Dutch. The German Army of Küchler had driven them back from the Albert Canal. The German Army of Reichenau had pounded through the Ardennes Forest and across the Meuse (see map). At Neufchâteau and Sedan the French IX Army (under incapable General André Corap) had been cracked, crushed, scattered...
...seems likely that the German Army, preceded by its powerful tanks, will roll in through Holland to Belgium where it is ardently to be hoped that the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liege will . . . stop them. If not, it would move toward our northern frontier, 350 kilometers wide...
...Canal above Liege and the Meuse below it, slanting across north of Namur to reach the Flanders plain and drive for Louvain and Brussels, the French took action. They sent in their own tank regiments. Around the highway junction of St. Trond one fine May day, and around Gembloux, 100 miles northeast of the Somme where nine British tanks first surprised the Germans 25 years ago, it was reported that 1,500 to 2,000 tanks milled, in scenes which, from the air, looked like a giant's parking lot gone mad. Both sides claimed the best...
...Paris, a court seized 100 shares of Suez Canal Company stock owned by crafty Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels-who had been regularly receiving interest through the Banque Generate du Luxembourg...
Died. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, 80, French adventurer-engineer, who engineered (from Room 1162 of the old Waldorf-Astoria) the Panama Revolution of 1903 which paved the way for U. S. acquisition of the Canal Zone; in Paris...