Word: antwerp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms of her neutrality, Belgium was not mobilized when Germany struck on August 4. Within twelve days all her Liége forts fell and Kluck rushed westward, intending to smash the Belgian Army at Jette. The Belgians retreated into fortified Antwerp, where he bottled them and passed...
...screw-Belgium faced a wheat short age. Monthly consumption is 100,000 tons. Reserves approximate 200,000 tons. Big shipments from South America were detained by Britain. Three Belgium-bound shiploads of barley from North Africa were unloaded in France. Seven thousand tons of maize, destined for Antwerp, were unloaded at Lisbon. It was too early to guess how Belgium's Congo mines would fare. Meantime, while Belgian purchasing commissions raced to London, Paris, Berlin, The Hague, New York, two German purchasing agents rushed to Brussels...
...mixed cargo. For five days her owners did not know where the ship was. When he did learn, Black Diamond's President Victor J. Sudman protested sharply to the U. S. State Department. In due course the Black Osprey was permitted to clear with all her cargo for Antwerp and Rotterdam, the British explaining that "it was not fully established that Germany was the destination and the items themselves were proved to be unimportant in quantity." Snorted President Sudman: "I imagine the publicity was too much for them...
Five days later, notices were posted at the German consulate in Antwerp, begging doctors "of German nationality regardless of race" to come home at once. The posters promised that, because of a serious shortage of physicians, all returning refugees would be immediately repatriated and paid back their confiscated fortunes to the last pfennig. To date, no answers have been received from the 3,000 Jewish doctors who escaped from the Reich...
...prayed, guarded its frontiers, laid in food supplies, was ready to flood the lowlands if the worst came. (Germany, also fearful, had electrified the barbed wire on its side of the frontier to catch would-be deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport of Esbjerg, 40 miles from the German border, injuring twelve and killing one (a woman). Danish fishing boats blundered into German mine...