Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best local information, Adolf Hitler has 36 divisions massed in this section of the front, including shock troops and mechanized units. . . . The present arrangement of his forces seems to indicate that he planned a sort of crack-the-whip movement, pivoting on the Luxembourg corner and sweeping through Holland and Belgium...
...invasion (see p. 19): "The New York paper, Evening Star,* writes: that it is learned that British troop ships with several divisions aboard have left England and were at present on the high seas. These ships were said to be intending to land troops, either in Norway or in Holland. The Evening Star is of the opinion that the landing of British troops in Holland is more probable, as Britain could scarcely hope to dislodge the Germans in Norway." Germany, which sends out five times as much in English as Great Britain does in German, has launched a new menace...
...taking greater liberties with the air over neutral countries. Anti-aircraft gunners in Belgium, Denmark, even in Norway, went into action against foreign war planes crossing their skies. Most extraordinary was an occurrence one dawn near Rotterdam. A big Armstrong Whitley bomber flew over the heart of Holland toward its base in Britain after a night's work over Germany. Lieut. P. Noomen of The Netherlands Air Force was called from his bed. Pulling his flying suit over his pajamas he leaped into his Fokker fighter and roared aloft, signaled the British ship to land. The British pilot plugged...
...stakes, in John Chamberlain's opinion, are hemisphere stakes. He argues that no matter what property changes hands in the rest of the world, the U. S. will still be sitting pretty. "Whether Japan or Holland or Britain 'owns' the East Indies, themine and plantation owners of that part of the world must sell in Akron or Pittsburgh or else face prolonged depression...
...Germany should be counting on decisive results from an air offensive against England, the establishment of her air bases in Holland would be an important step forward...