Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Axis, the U. S. condemned aggression, froze the assets of the invaded country, repeated again its insistence on the rights of small nations, and then, when the Nazi war machine had rolled over another one, recognized the Government in exile. So it was with Norway, The Netherlands, Luxembourg; so it threatened to be for many more. It was a grim, unvaried procession, that at its best made U. S. policy seem well-meaning, unimaginative, unreal...
Like the Louvre in Paris, Washington's National Gallery was intended to include only the works of the past. A rigid rule excluding the work of all artists who had not been dead for 20 years tabooed all moderns. As Luxembourg to its Louvre, Washington has plans for another museum, the Smithsonian Gallery of Art. The competition for the Gallery's design was won two years ago by famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen and associates. But, so far, the Smithsonian Gallery is still in the planning stage...
...President had made a wholesale diplomatic reshuffle. To London as Ambassador to Poland, Belgium and Minister to The Netherlands and Norway, will go Barrymore-collared Anthony J. Drexel Biddle. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, Minister to Canada, will also act as Minister to Luxembourg's refugee Government. Plump Nelson Trusler Johnson, wearied by the strain of his five years of tension and overwork as Ambassador to China, was shifted to the Australian legation, and the Australian Minister, horse-faced Clarence Edward Gauss, transferred to Chungking. Another transfer brought Bert Fish, now Minister to Egypt, to Portugal, at the same rank; while...
...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
Lorraine. Both Luxembourg and Alsace were setups compared with the job of introducing the new order to the stubborn Frenchmen of devastated Lorraine. For this reason Hitler entrusted the task to his foremost Anschluss professional, Gauleiter Josef Bürckel who not only engineered the Anschluss of the Saar, but also originated the Nazi annexation formula so successfully employed in Austria. A hefty, beetle-browed Rhinelander dubbed the "Red Gauleiter'' because he has constantly stressed Socialism more than Nationalism, Bürckel informed sullen Lorraine peasants last week that the "Führer principle" had been introduced along...