Word: leopold
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...front was an attackers' nightmare, composed of bridgeheads within bridgeheads, like a magician's nest of boxes (see map). At first the Germans had held on a line from Heyst, along the Leopold Canal, thence eastward to the suburbs of Antwerp. While one force of Canadians cleared the outskirts of the city, another struck across the Canal east of Aardenburg. The enemy was dug in, in trenches cut into the sides of the dikes, and had to be routed by intense artillery, mortar and small-arms fire, and finally flamethrowers...
...Canadians landed near Hoofdplaat, east of Breskens, and started fighting their way south to link hands with their comrades edging up from the Leopold Canal. Even this was not enough. The Nazi defenders-20,000 desperate and skillful infantrymen, marines, naval artillerymen, SS antitank specialists and paratroops-stood their ground along the countless dikes...
Last week the Allied world heard Nazi plans for going underground, reports of secret training for underground Nazis, secret hideouts in the Black Forest and Bavaria, bold schemes to whisk Belgium's King Leopold, Stalin's son Jacob and other distinguished prisoners of the Germans to Japan by submarine. There they would be held as hostages in case Allied threats to bring Nazi war criminals to trial meant business. Behind these schemes stirred the shadow of the Feme, once more emerging from the twilight...
...pretender, but a newly-minted Regent of Belgium was Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, younger brother of captive King Leopold. For three months before the liberation, the Gestapo hunted high & low for Prince Charles. They could have found him, fighting with the Belgian Maquis in the High Ardennes. When he turned up at the Royal Palace in Brussels last week, the Belgian parliament, meeting for the first time since 1940 on Belgian soil, temporarily gave him a royal job. Regent Charles's first act was to announce that he was merely keeping the throne warm for his brother. Then...
...ladies' hats made it clear that he was not cut out for the millinery business. His father began to catch on when young Iz (the family nickname) forged his name on an excuse from school to see the doctor. Iz went to the local vaudeville house instead. Father Leopold stormed. Iz threatened to run away- under a pseudonym, to spare the family name. Father Leopold didn't like that, either. Said he: "If you make a hit, nobody will know...