Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever became of the Luxembourg fleas, correspondents had firsthand evidence of their presence...
Here is some incidental intelligence about TIME and 1) Luxembourg fleas, 2) Japanese journalists. 3) surrealist art, which has come to my desk lately and may be of interest...
Andre Laguerre of our Paris bureau reported the incident of the small Frenchman in a big beret who drove up to the Luxembourg Palace, where some 1.200 delegates have been trying to write the peace, prepared to do business with the authorities in charge. He parked his car, which was equipped with a padlocked trailer loaded with intricate contraptions, and sent in his card to the secretariat. He was given an immediate audience...
Asked where he got the idea that the Luxembourg had fleas, the courteous fleaman said he had read about it in the American magazine TIME...
...shouldn't let yourself be impressed by frivolous journalism!" cried the outraged official. "There aren't any fleas at Luxembourg. There never have been...