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...have," he said, "made pictures of The Netherlands. Perhaps you saw my sketches of Schiphol Airdrome and the Eben Emael Fortress at Liége? And I also did some sketches of Paris. . . . Next I go to Turkey, they say, and then I am promised an opportunity to make sketches in Africa, the colors so sharp and clean-that will be good-the blue and the white, and sunlight in the desert. There should be good sketching in Cairo, don't you think...
...just then. But it was taken for granted in Berlin that to win the war, the invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased German remarked last week: "We'll take England by employing the same method we used in taking Eben Emael"-the key Belgian fort, which was subdued by treachery, flame, bombs, parachutists, gliders, above all, by surprise...
Quick to congratulate Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson on his election as president (hitherto acting president) of General Motors Corp. last week were Charles E. (for Edward) Wilson, president of General Electric Co., and Charles E. (for Eben) Wilson, vice president of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp...
...sudden capture of Fort Eben Emael at Liége was swiftly followed...
Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg conquest of the Lowlands and France began before dawn May 10. Within 24 hours it pierced the strongly fortified Belgian defense line at Eben Emael, north of Liege. Crashing through the Belgian Ardennes, it encountered and crushed treacherous or woefully incompetent French Ninth Army under General Corap at Sedan on the Meuse...