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Weygand tried vainly to cut through to the beleaguered armies of the North. Privately, he said "Militarily the situation cannot be repaired." On May 28, finding his Army swamped by refugees, overpowered by Germans, apparently destined only to fight a rear guard action for the British, King Leopold of the Belgians surrendered. On June 3, the evacuation of Dunkirk by the Allies was completed, leaving the materiel of four armies and scores of thousands of prisoners in German hands...
...Leopold surrenders over the heads of his generals and Cabinet...
This spring, platinum-polled Leopold Stokowski toured the U. S., gave auditions to 500 aspirants to the "All American Youth Orchestra" which he plans to take to South America. Although he had set age limits (15 to 25), he stretched the limit after hearing, in Detroit, a 14-year-old Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught...
...Leopold's case: "The time comes when a man has to decide between sacrificing life and holding out as a theatrical gesture." Thousands of Belgian refugees poured back from Dunkirk, Calais, other cities to which they had fled, looking along gutted streets for lost husbands, wives, parents, children. The King had to appeal to the International Red Cross to see to the safety of his own three small, motherless children. No one seemed to know where Crown Prince Baudouin Albert, aged 9, and his brother and sister were. Paris said in Rome; Berlin said in southern France...
Following cabled instructions from their Government exiled in Poitiers, France, officials of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair removed from the reception lobby a white marble bust of King Leopold...