Word: basel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Believe-It-or-Notable character is Thomas Harrington McKittrick, 54, of Milton, Mass. and Basel, Switzerland. Though he is a U.S. citizen, and his country is at war, he is a neutral in office hours. For he is the President of the Bank for International Settlements...
Next week he will probably arise in the empty board room of the bank's five-story building in the old Swiss city of Basel and, as he has three times before, go through the motions of presenting and accepting the annual report. He will have been authorized to do so by proxies of the bank's 17 directors, 13 of whom are controlled by the Axis powers, and one of whom is Walther Funk himself (Reich Minister of Economics...
...German masses are not wholly in the dark: they often listen to foreign broadcasts and they have learned to read between the lines of their communiques. When the German press reported that somebody had unsuccessfully tried to explode the Rhine bridge to Basel in northwest Switzerland, Rhinelanders cracked: "It must be the Russian Partisans trying to cut off the Wehrmacht's retreat...
This long, bitter, muscular novel, by the bitter author of The Bells of Basel and Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth...
...Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel), like Andre Malraux, served in a tank division. His corps was cut off in, Flanders, surrounded. From the beach at Dunkirk, Aragon escaped to England. Two days later he somehow made his way back to France, to the troops still fighting on the Seine and the Loire. Day before the armistice, the Nazis captured him, put him in a prison camp. Like Malraux, he escaped (with 30 others). His hair turned white. Now living at the village of Varetz, south of Limoges, in unoccupied France, Aragon is writing poetry, a novel (non-political). Aragon wrote...