Word: ghent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West of Germany, Hitler and Himmler intended to set up a new state called Burgundy, which would sprawl across parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The capital city: either Ghent or Dijon. Its chancellor would be Léon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader...
...more than a British angle to Kenyon's first money raising effort. Founder Chase's original $30,000 for Kenyon was, in fact, the gift of a British group including Lords Kenyon and Gambier (Henry Clay, having met and liked Lord Gambier at the Treaty of Ghent negotiations, gave Chase a letter of introduction to him). Because of this backing, and because Kenyon's first building had walls four feet thick, surrounding frontier settlers suspected the college of being a British fort. Kenyon's ultimate response was the turning out of such stanch U.S. citizens...
Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...
...they began a great campaign of interdiction-sealing off the battle area bounded by the Seine and the Loire. Arnold tells how successfully they carried out that mission. It took an SS Panzer division ten days to get from the Ghent area to the front lines over the tortured, twisted wreckage left by the bombers. It took another Panzer division 19 days to move from central Galicia to the front...
...stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week's end the intrepid Manchesterites were still...