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Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...afternoon of June 11, the Bank for International Settlements held its 15th annual general meeting in the austere board room of its building in Basel, Switzerland. In other years, such famed international bankers as Germany's Hjalmar Schacht and Walter Funk, Britain's Montague Norman and Sir Otto Niemeyer, Italy's Dottore Raffaele Pilotti, Japan's Hisaakira Kano, and the U.S.'s Thomas McKittrick had met around the huge, oval table. But this year may be B.I.S.'s last: several nations would like to have it dissolved, and even whisper that there would...
...some time before he gets there, but as the Allied troops smash into the heart of Germany he is going in right behind them, to help reopen TIME's Berlin Office, closed since June 1941 when our last correspondent there locked its door and caught the train for Basel to telephone us the true story of Hitler's break with Stalin from the uncensored side of the Swiss frontier...
What would happen to the other gilded refugees? Swiss hospitality was grudging. Said the Basel Nationalzeitung: "This manner of living is a provocation and a lack of elementary decency...
Foreign Minister Pilet-Golaz soon resigned. Said the Basel National Zeitung, organ of his own Radical Democratic Party: "Why have we been so slow? . . ." Said the socialist Berner Tagwacht: "Let . . . the Soviet Union not forget that it was Switzerland that sheltered Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries until...