Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with brave old England, as soon as she may be willing to agree to what is vital to us concerning Germany." But Britain will have to accept France as an equal partner in western Europe. ¶ France intends to make regional alliances with its immediate neighbors-Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg. ¶France wants to join a world peace organization-but not until the war is over both in Europe and in the Pacific. Reason for the delay: not until then will France have recovered "full liberty of action and all of our territories...
...Like Balboa. In Luxembourg, the new U.S. 17th Airborne Division and three other Third Army divisions moved up to a ridgetop road called "Skyline Drive," 1,500 feet high, whence they could look down across the Our River into Germany. It was not exactly like Balboa looking down on the Pacific. U.S. troops had been on that ridgetop before. This time they went down the other side and waded the icy river, to enter Germany at two points...
...shoulder-deep last week in two great battles 13,000 miles apart-the battle of Luzon, in the Philippines, and the battle of the Ardennes in Belgium and Luxembourg (see below). As combat operations, the two seemed as remote from one another as though fought on different planets. On the plane of global strategy and logistics, they were tightly interlocked...
...involuntary tranquilizer of liberated Europe was Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt. His unexpected sweep into Luxembourg and Belgium had sent a chill through every nation from which the Germans had been recently driven. While the chill lasted, liberated Europeans might be expected to bury their deep civil differences in that common grave which held the latest victims of German savagery. At least for the moment, some of the Left and some of the Right seemed to have grasped the fact that so long as the common enemy must still be fought and defeated, they must forgo the luxury...
...Crawford, loquacious, sparkish president of Cleveland's potent Thompson Products, Inc. (aircraft and automotive valves, pistons and bearings) and board chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, was the witness whose evidence turned out unexpectedly. On the basis of some ten days spent in touring France, Belgium and Luxembourg, Crawford reported thus...