Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twice recently I have heard the story which seems to be going the rounds that our Government is paying an exorbitant rental for the land where our World War dead are buried in France. If the rent is not paid promptly, so the story goes, France has threatened to get rid of the bodies by the use of quicklime...
...recollection is that this land was deeded to the U. S. by France as a gift to this country. If this is true I hope that you will help to correct this malicious falsehood...
...Falsehood it is. The French Government bought the land, gave it to the U. S., tax free and in perpetuity. The story may have arisen from the fact that some U. S. soldiers died in France long after the end of the war, were buried privately...
...French freight train chuffed calmly out of Mulhouse, across No Man's Land under the muzzles of Germany's guns, and up to Basel, Switzerland-first French train to arrive there since the end of August. Explained the engineer: "We had a lot of stuff consigned to Switzerland sitting in the freight station ... so I thought I might as well bring it along...
...German loudspeaker units played French music across No Man's Land at the French lines. When they switched to peace overtures and Adolf Hitler's speeches, the French fired at the loudspeakers...