Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninth Army showed up on the left flank of the First Army, attacked toward Cologne behind the heaviest rain of bombs and shells the west had ever seen. The Third Army, whose assault on Metz last fortnight had touched off the winter offensive, probed into Germany below Luxembourg...
...grand strategic scale, the whole Allied effort between Luxembourg and Switzerland seemed also a diversion. It forced the Germans to protect the Saar, the Moselle approach to Trier and Coblenz, and the Lorraine gate to Karlsruhe, while the heaviest blows of the new winter drive are delivered in the north...
...talk of a Western Bloc (TIME, Nov. 20). But Foreign Minister Spaak would not stay muffled. He said: "I want to emphasize that the Dumbarton Oaks scheme made particular reference to what are called regional arrangements. Belgium can envisage the conclusion of a regional accord with France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and possibly Norway...
...slamming ahead on a 75-mile front from the southern corner of Luxembourg to the Rhine-Marne Canal north of the Vosges. He was encircling the ancient fortress of Metz, German kingbolt position on this sector and strongest shield in front of the coal, steel and pig iron of the Saar Basin...
...Third Republic's Senate Chamber (a gilded, rococo wing of the Luxembourg Palace) the new Consultative Assembly held its first session. Created in Algiers more than a year ago, the Assembly had been reorganized, its membership upped from 102 to 248. Resistance groups held 148 seats. Third Republic parliamentarians untainted by collaboration 60, overseas delegates...