Word: charleroi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prison. But in Belgium picketing is illegal in certain out-of-bounds areas, and the Little Castle was out of bounds, all right. The rescuers, however, found that the law said nothing against demonstrations on canals. Next day, in a rubber dinghy, Ewan set out on the Canal de Charleroi, right next to the prison. Through a megaphone of rolled newspapers, he shouted that Clarin should be freed...
...Paris, the lights which now blaze so brightly may soon be dimmed. In the huge textile mills of Lyons, the spindles are idle. In Belgium the great steel mills in Liege, Charleroi and La Louviere are shut. In many a European village there is ample food, but no way to get it to the hungry cities...
...Milton S. Eisenhower, 45, president of Kansas State College, appointed last week as special assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture; Edgar Eisenhower, a Tacoma, Wash, attorney; Earl Eisenhower, a Charleroi, Pa. electrical engineer; and Arthur Eisenhower, vice president of Kansas City's Commerce Trust...
Song-&-dance Man Maurice Chevalier, who has turned quisling, was all set to walk onstage in a Charleroi, Belgium hall, when saboteurs blew up the electrical installations...
This was not the first time Henri Honoré Giraud had escaped from the Germans. In 1914, aged 35, he was wounded in a French bayonet attack near Charleroi and left for dead on the field. Captured by the Germans, he made his first escape via Holland to England, aided by his fluent German, variously disguised as a butcher, stableboy, coal man, and magician in a traveling circus. At one point he was helped by Nurse Edith Cavell. In 1915 he was back with the French Fifth Army...