Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
Spaak, as the representative of a fully liberated country, was the first to come to London. Next, probably, would be Luxembourg's astute Foreign Minister, Joseph Bech. Soon Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden would pay a ceremonial call on General Charles de Gaulle in Paris. Later, when their countries had been freed, the plenipotentiaries of the other Atlantic states would come to London...
...Yorker last week appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...
Three of the new diplomats are seasoned Democrats. To Belgium and Luxembourg went Charles Sawyer, 57, longtime Ohio politician; to Norway, by way of the exiled Government in London, Lithgow Osborne, who left the U.S. foreign service 22 years ago for the automobile business, and has aided Herbert Lehman in UNRRA; and to the Yugoslav Government, Richard C. Patterson, onetime assistant to the late Secretary of Commerce, Daniel C. Roper...
...Near Luxembourg the Allies found a purported Hitler staff document. It called on officers to save themselves at all costs: "An officer's salvation in retreat is in the interests of the country." (Lately there has been a low percentage of officers among prisoners taken.) There was other evidence that officer groups, cut off in Holland, were deserting their men, either to save themselves to lead an untried, last-ditch army of civilians and military misfits or to go underground to keep Naziism alive...