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...Swedes who had not seen war in their lifetimes moved inland. Well-fed Dutch burghers in cities near the German frontier packed up and went to Amsterdam; from Eindhoven a thousand women and children took the broad, flat road to Utrecht. Refugees from once-German Eupen and Malmédy had already fled toward Brussels. In the Danube Valley and the Balkans, Serbs, Croats, Magyars, Rumanians, Bulgars and Greeks, trapped on all sides by war and threats of war, would have liked to move somewhere, if only they had somewhere to move...
...soldiers rolled through Brussels while civilians piled sandbags around buildings and factories. Messengers rushed through every Belgian city, summoning officers and men from theatres, cafes, homes. Brussels had a partial blackout, something she never had during last autumn's scare. French-speaking residents of Eupen and Malmédy (ceded by Germany after World War I) were evacuated to the interior. King Leopold became active Commander in Chief of the Army...
...Maginot Line, not continuous but strategically clumped. Across the border is a Belgian Army, fully mobilized last week to 300,000 strong (instead of the 42,000 available in 1914). The Belgian fort system at Liége and southeast through Battice and Eupen to Malmédy backed up by another system along the Meuse around Namur, is rebuilt on modern lines and stands behind a frontier fringe of trenches and pillboxes. Behind the fort system runs a "Little Maginot Line" constructed with French engineering assistance and, back of that, all the way from Liége around...
...Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
Hungarian politics took a fantastic turn fortnight ago when anti-Semitic Premier Béla von Imrédy resigned, ostensibly because he had discovered that he was one-eighth Jewish, actually because he was too willing a Nazi stooge to suit the independent Magyars. Last week his successor, Count Paul Teleki, erstwhile Boy Scout leader, made more confusing news. Having announced that he would support the brutal anti-Semitic laws planned by Dr. Imrédy and that he was in agreement with the "peaceful aims of the Rome-Berlin axis," the Teleki Government promptly ordered police to round...