Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Braden's Man. A onetime Delaware schoolteacher, George Messersmith has been in the diplomatic service 32 years-he had served in Canada, the Dutch West Indies, Belgium and Luxembourg before he went to Berlin. According to a colleague, he has "an uncanny nose that can smell an s.o.b. as far as the wind can carry the scent." He got the scent in Berlin almost immediately. In 1933 he wrote to Washington: "There is a real revolution here, and a dangerous situation." He was home, serving as Assistant Secretary of State, when the situation cracked in September...
...secluded old house in the Luxembourg forests, twelve men were hard at work. Now & then, an ample Frenchwoman served food and hot coffee. A Luxembourg police officer shivered outside in the cold rain. His job: guarding "Operation Annie," the most dramatic underground radio station in wartime Europe...
...that history, whoever writes it, the roaring campaigns of George Smith Patton and his tanks across France and Germany must make an honorable chapter. Along that route, among Third Army dead at Hamm in Luxembourg, George Patton was laid to rest...
...Britons who live in the somnolent shadow of Sabbatarian BBC, prewar Radio Luxembourg was a sprightly, sunny beam. Its bright shows included hotcha acts from British music halls, such U.S. soap operas as Stella Dallas...
Last week it appeared that Radio Lux would go back to its old ways. Pint-sized Jacques LaCour-Gayet, representing Radio Lux's French stockholders, said in Manhattan: "Radio Luxembourg will be very glad to accept American advertisers...