Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squarely on the doorstep of Luxembourg. . . . The bugles were sounding this morning across the [Moselle] river and there was infantry on the road in massed columns. . . . There are cavalry maneuvers in the grassy meadow downriver a few miles from Remich. . . . The roads are jammed with Army trucks. . . . Every path that comes down from the main road into the meadow has a terminus in a wooden jetty. . . . No attempts are made to conceal the pontoon sections lying alongside...
...According to the best local information, Adolf Hitler has 36 divisions massed in this section of the front, including shock troops and mechanized units. . . . The present arrangement of his forces seems to indicate that he planned a sort of crack-the-whip movement, pivoting on the Luxembourg corner and sweeping through Holland and Belgium...
...dodge to deceive his enemies, the Low Countries had good reason to be nervous. Nervous they were. Belgium called back all men who had been released from the reserves because of age. The Netherlands extended martial law to the entire country, for the first time since 184,8. Luxembourg, which has an Army of 475 (gendarmerie included), cannot defend herself and will not try to, but the Luxembourgeois, who stood four years of occupation in World War I, know that far worse things are in store for them if Hitler crosses the Moselle...
Beautiful Princess. Luxembourg, a half-size Delaware, is the portal between Central and Western Europe; six miles east is Imperial Trèves (Trier to the Germans), from which the Romans ruled their Western Empire. Since Roman days no war in western Europe has passed Luxembourg by, and each war has given the country a new hero or martyr...
...French were mad at Marie-Adélaïde, claimed that she was pro-German because she had received the Kaiser at tea. Toward the end of the war stories about Luxembourg's high-spirited young ruler began to circulate in the Grand Duchy, and the Luxembourgeois, who were hungry and broke and sick of the Germans, believed many of them. There were riots in Luxembourg City as the Germans retreated across the Moselle and the French started to move in. Pershing beat them to it, and for a while in 1918 Luxembourg was under the protection...