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...Belgium was expected to resist the Allied attempt to aid The Netherlands through Belgium. "Apparently it was not fully understood in Berlin that Dutch-Belgian relations in the matter of mutual assistance against aggression had undergone important changes following the [earlier] exchange of views between King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina...
...Netherlands, and the Allied forces and British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
Despite reassurances from The Hague and from Brussels, where King Leopold conferred long & often with his ministers and generals after returning from his sudden visit to Queen Wilhelmina, nervousness and foreboding continued through the weekend. Despite repeated German denials, all intelligence reports agreed that Adolf Hitler was planning to move somewhere, soon and suddenly, in the West. Logic for his striking through The Netherlands was compelling. With the Belgian border fortified against him almost as strongly as the French, the Dutch dike was his weakest target. His objective would not necessarily be the turning of the Allied flank but acquisition...
...take Flushing and other coastal points south of the river deltas, enjoying the Dutch flood zone as protection for their right flank from any counterattack. The likelihood of this attack, and its obvious menace to Belgium, was believed last week to have led King Leopold to tell Queen Wilhelmina that if the Germans invaded her land, his troops would have to occupy her southeastern corner to meet them. Also, it was understood, he would invite the British and French to cross Belgium to back...
...haste with which the peace appeal of The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina and King Leopold of the Belgians (see p. 17) was shelved last week was an indication of how desperate the Allies thought Germany's position. And the attempted assassination of Führer Adolf Hitler in such a Nazi sanctum sanctorum as the Munich beer hall lent substance to much wishful thinking that Germany was near an internal revolution. In London, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said that the Allies were sitting pretty because: 1) the repeal of the U. S. embargo opened to the Allies the "greatest...