Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judgment on Leopold. At the last moment, when Belgium was already invaded, King Leopold called upon us to come to his aid, and even at the last moment we came. He and his brave and efficient Army of nearly half a million strong guarded our eastern flank; this kept open our only retreat...
...Hollow-cheeked old Gustav V rode out to Stockholm's stadium, warned 30,000 holiday-making Swedes: "The danger is not past. ... I therefore exhort you not to relax." >Bitter, broken and bewildered, Leopold III, King of the Belgians, brooded in his castle at Laeken, on Brussels' edge. Execrated by his allies, who were not to be placated by the restrained comments of the British Prime Minister, repudiated by his own Government, by his overseas empire, by approximately one-third of his eight million people (fled to France), by nearly every important personage of his country, Leopold...
...Ambassador John Cudahy visited him, received Leopold's own letter of explanation to President Roosevelt, which failed to reach the President except by press report...
This officer's respect for German military power, plus Leopold's conception of absolute neutrality and his will for peace, led the King in 1936 to abandon Belgium's alliance with France. After that he became more & more subject to the influence of Flemish, anti-French thought. He had no personal liking for the French, used to vacation in the Austrian Tyrol and Italy, caused a mild scandal in 1938 by letting his picture be taken bathing near Bolzano with a certain Frau Rosa Weisinger (see cut, p. 32). Leopold had the most solemn assurances from Adolf...
...expects to make no money on its prestigious tour, but last fortnight, within six hours after ticket sales began, all the concerts were sold out. To one U. S. maestro, this was not unmixed good news. Platinum-mopped Leopold Stokowski began raising an "All American Youth Orchestra" last winter, planned also to make a South American tour-for good will. Since last spring, Stokowski has professed to be undaunted by Toscanini's rival junket, has apparently not been bothered by the prospect that South Americans, always sensitive to any sort of patronizing from the North, might be averse...