Word: bern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came from the U.S., a nation which the Swiss consider their great & good friend. The author was Charles Lanius, ex-NBC radio reporter, back in the U.S. from a year's stay in Bern. His Saturday Evening Post article, "Switzerland, Axis Captive," though "softened" by State Department suggestion, still packed enough punch to make the Swiss and their friends hopping mad. Of Switzerland Lanius had written...
Rumania. Back from Hitler's field headquarters last week came Premier Ion Antonescu after a one-day session with Adolf and several of his top-flight generals. According to reports from Bern, Hitler refused to lighten his demands for Rumanian troops, otherwise help Antonescu preserve his tottering regime. Instead, Hitler reportedly demanded more Rumanian petroleum and troops, less noise. In Geneva last week was pro-British Grigore Gafencu, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister, the logical man to extend any peace overtures to Allied representatives...
...Professor Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléeff classified the probable chemical elements in 1869 and arranged them in the periodic table, scientists have looked for a fifth member of the halogen family: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine. Now the hypothetical eka-iodine (i.e., next to iodine) has finally been isolated in Bern, Switzerland. Thus Mendeléeff's table has now been realized, substantially as he predicted, with 92 elements (unless there are others heavier than uranium, which chemists think unlikely...
Discoverers of the method of isolating eka-iodine are Dr. Walter Minder, director of Bern's Radium Institute, and Dr. Alice Leigh-Smith, British student of the late great Mme. Curie. In a burst of international patriotism they named the new element anglohelvetium after their native lands, as Mme. Curie named polonium for her Poland...
...enemies. Adolf Hitler made a curious reference to the Kaiser's flight from Germany (see p. 36). The German radio clamored about "brutal assault . . . shameless breach . . . gangster methods . . . imperialistic aims . . . piece of impudence." In keeping, Tokyo broadcasters squeaked and hissed: "Illegal . . . international banditry ... a most ungentlemanly act." Bern reported that Rome was in a state of "stupefied pessimism," and Rome's radio spokesmen admitted that "the horizon is black. . . . Tonight the Italian people . . . is facing a terrible trial...