Word: antwerp
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Belgium was grim because the country had been looted of foodstuffs, because 50,000 workers had been deported to Germany, because there was no real leadership in the nation, with its Government in exile in London and King Leopold stead fastly refusing to become a puppet. When Jews in Antwerp were ordered to wear armbands a few weeks ago, masses of gentiles appeared on the streets with identical armbands...
...Bangkok and back. Herr & Frau Diesel still had their big house in Munich, entertained many U. S. engineers there. They took a vacation in Italy. In September, Rudolf Diesel set out for England to see a Diesel plant inaugurated there. He and two friends took a Channel steamer at Antwerp. They had dinner, strolled on deck, went to their staterooms. When the boat docked at Harwich, Diesel was not on board. No note, no clue, no trace of his body was ever found...
...main force of R. A. F. flights still fell on Antwerp, Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport, Le Havre, Calais and every intervening cove and roadstead...
...group of cards is shown celebrating various zeppelin and plane bombing attacks on Antwerp, Yarmouth, and other cities. In another set of postcards the German propagandists are shown attacking the Italians of 1915 as "treulos" and "falsch," and ridiculing the Russian army for its defeat at Tannenberg...
Last week the British seemed to know too much. They knew that hundreds of self-propelled barges, speedboats and other light craft had been concentrated in Stavanger, Bergen, Antwerp, Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Calais, Boulogne, Brest and all the way down to the Bay of Biscay. That big convoys of merchant supply and transport ships had been port-hopping into the Channel under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved...