Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they worked in the Lilliputian Village at the New York World's Fair all last summer, 26 German midgets had no idea what was in store for them this winter. En route to Genoa after the Fair, all 26 were intercepted in the Mediterranean by a French cruiser. Last week ten of them were discovered in a French concentration camp 20 miles north of Marseille. Married midgets had been allowed to proceed, but the rest were interned because, said a French officer in charge: "Those little fellows would make ideal spies. . . . They could hide almost in a desk...