Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Robert Joseph Casey was back in Luxembourg sending alarming dispatches to his paper, the Chicago Daily News. Round-bellied, globe-trotting Bob Casey knows his Luxembourg better than any other reporter in the business. He first went there as an artilleryman in 1918, loved it so well that he stayed on to write the first of his 15 books, The Land of Haunted Castles. No alarmist is he. Last autumn, when Paris correspondents were worrying about German concentrations opposite Luxembourg, Reporter Casey coolly tooled through the German lines in a taxicab. Last week he had this...
Extended troop movements at the Swiss and Luxembourg extremities of the front were observed by the Allies, despite a "flying Westwall"- a stronger than usual barrier of fighter planes kept up continuously by the Germans to prevent observation behind their lines. Simultaneously the German Air Force intensified reconnaissance flights over northern France-always approaching and retiring, it was noticed, by way of Belgium...
...Maginot-Siegfried stalemate soared over the enemy's interior now in massed squadrons instead of singly. Over the North Sea, Nazi bombers dived with increasing fury and frequency on Allied merchant convoys and British trawlermen. The crew of a Dornier bomber flying inside the Belgian line on the Luxembourg border felt so springlike when three Belgian patrol planes came up to chase them away that they opened fire, sent the Belgian squadron leader crashing to death, forced another down with holes in his gas tank, wounded the third plane's pilot...
...further fuss, a Senate committee decided to examine Senator Cachin to determine the extent of his "heresy" from patriotism. But the aged Senator, behind closed doors, refused stanchly to renounce the Communist International, so the committee had no choice but to vote unanimously to admit him no more to Luxembourg Palace...