Word: westphalians
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...fighting bore many points of resemblance to the hedgerow warfare in Normandy before the breakout. In bitterness and dreariness it was unexcelled. The stake was high: if the Allies could put Antwerp to speedy use, they might yet ship in enough supplies to launch a major drive across the Westphalian Plain toward Berlin before winter. The Nazis well knew this. They took out additional insurance by destroying Rotterdam, the greatest freight port of The Netherlands...
...leader on the Western Front is a blond, blue-eyed, Westphalian farmer's son, Captain Albert Kost. No career officer like Colonel von Wedel, he has been a Nazi politician for many years, at 45 is a member of Hitler's submissive Reichstag. Taciturn, quiet, heavy-featured, Captain Kost is an ardent Catholic with five children...
...This map shows unmistakably that the main aim of England and France is the dismemberment of the German Reich. The Western Powers want a powerless Germany, the same as was created through the Westphalian Peace of 1648."* These words were addressed to Berlin's foreign correspondents, one day last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter...
...common people were represented too. Three rooms and part of the main Chancellery Hall were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...
...Bremen docked in Manhattan. On board were specially-ordered supplies of red carnations, English tea, barreled drinking water, Westphalian hams, steaks, cutlets, liver paste, and 1,049 passengers, some of whom had transferred at the last moment from cabin to tourist class. In a freshly refurbished suite (80-82) on A Deck had crossed not the two people who were to have made the voyage elaborately newsworthy and whose names still headed the official passenger list-Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Windsor-but Socony- Vacuum's Vice President Edwy R. Brown & wife of Dallas...