Word: bernhard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower could look ahead confidently to new phases. He named Major General Ivan Gerard to direct Belgian patriots. He rallied the Netherlanders' resistance under Prince Bernhard's leadership, urged them to block damage to Rotterdam and other ports. To Germany he said again: its war will be over in 1944. Unless the Wehrmacht could show more than it had in France, no snow would fall on the Battle of Germany...
Walther von Brauchitsch was the son of Junker General Bernhard von Brauchitsch and socialite Elizabeth von Karstedt. The boy found his way to the Imperial Guards and the fashionable Elizabeth's Guard Grenadiers. Throughout World War I he was on the General Staff; in the postwar token Reichswehr he got a highly essential, secret job: Chief of the Department for Army Expansion...
Without ceremony or circumstance, 63-year-old Queen Wilhelmina marked the 45th anniversary of her coronation. In London the Queen spent a Hausfrau's day at home with her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard, took routine spins on her bicycle...
...bishops spoke not only as good Catholics but as patriotic Germans. To Dr. Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister for Church Affairs, they pointed out the "rampart of bitterness and enmity" rising against Germans because of religious persecution in occupied lands, denounced Nazi persecution in language he could understand: "unwise politically...
...Prince Bernhard had warned the people of Holland against any celebrations, for fear of reprisals, but on the six islands of The Netherlands West Indies, church bells pealed, sirens blew, and there was dancing in the streets and singing in the bars. In Ottawa, in a hospital suite declared Dutch territory for the day, to Crown Princess Juliana had been born a 7 lb. 12 oz. daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy...