Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground and thousand more in the sky relentlessly pressed the trap's jaws together. Allied Generalissimo...
Guards to the Rear. Perhaps King Leopold surrendered when and as he did because he knew or suspected that the British were about to withdraw, as they had from Norway, with their host's Army covering their rear. Certainly his surrender forced their immediate withdrawal. But it was an orderly withdrawal with the wounded sent first; a courageous, masterful rear-guard action conducted by General Lord ("Tiger") Gort in full cooperation with the French...
...many of his countrymen had been slaughtered he did not know. As Commander in Chief of the Belgian Army holding the Allied left flank, he had seen it beaten back with frightful losses toward the English Channel. On this night the Germans were at the gates of Bruges. Leopold III, King of the Belgians, sent for his Ministers...
...agitated and harassed, with tears in his eyes. Latest military reports, said the King, showed that the Belgian Army was bearing the brunt of the German attack. Behind it the British and French were already backing toward the Channel. Further resistance would not save Belgium. In his opinion, King Leopold said, the Belgian Army should withdraw from...
...stay with my Army in my country," Leopold replied. "You remain with me to govern...