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...Michael McDermott's office, listening to dance music on the radio while they waited for releases, newsmen knew that soon President Roosevelt would again condemn an act of aggression (the eighth German aggression that he has deplored), would again extend the Neutrality Act to include Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg (third extension in six months), would again act to freeze the credits in the U. S. of the invaded countries. They knew that the President's press conference next day would be crowded, grave, unrevealing -and it was, with about 250 correspondents filing to the White House through...
...that is not so in the world happenings of today-and I am proud that it is not so. I am glad that we Americans are shocked, that we are angered by the tragic news that has come to us from Belgium and The Netherlands and Luxembourg." He praised the ideals of the New World ("We feel that we are building human progress by conquering disease and poverty ... removing one by one the many cruelties and crudities and barbarities of less civilized eras") and saw them menaced by a Hitler victory ("the school of destruction . . . those who seek to dominate...
...Nazis, Communists, etc., including National Socialist Party Editor M. M. Rost van Tonninggen, member of The Netherlands Second Chamber. That something was afoot in the Low Countries was indicated by the fact that within 24 hours the Belgian Government put visa requirements in effect on her Netherlands and Luxembourg frontiers, arrested two Flemish Nationalists...
Probably the best friend Luxembourg has is the U. S., though few U. S. citizens have ever been there. Those who go there find it an expression of their most sentimental instincts: a tiny Switzerland with lofty mountains and beautiful valleys through which wander the Sure and the Alzette. Its tolerance extends to all sects and races, including Jews. On Sunday mornings a band plays in the main square of the capital and the people stroll round & round. The highest officer in the Army is a captain. Prince Felix's proudest possession is The Public Papers and Addresses...
...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...