Word: berne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another new Foreign News writer was two and a half years a correspondent in Berlin and Bern-and a third was largely responsible for the New York Times' News of the Week in Review. A new writer in Army & Navy was in Warsaw for the New York Herald Tribune when the Germans blitzed into Poland-stuck it out there after the Government had fled-was one of the last four American correspondents to escape. Still another new writer (World Battlefronts) was sent to London by the A.P. just in time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain...
...Bern relayed a story that the Germans may have found Benito Mussolini in the Braschi Fortress outside Rome. The Daily Mail said that the ex-Duce had been trans ported to the Ponza Islands, a volcanic cluster in the Tyrrhenian Sea between Ostia and Naples. War Correspondent John Steinbeck had a similar story. He had gone with an Allied landing party to Ventotene Island, one of the Ponza group. Said Correspondent Steinbeck: he had missed Benito Mussolini by less than twelve hours. "I talked with a number of inhabitants. They said Mussolini assured them he would return to power...
...died when they flickered in 1933. Others saw the lights blow out again. Europe's darkness this time spread to Africa, Asia, Australia, America; in the universal war, even neutrals had to accept the night. Among the world's blacked-out cities: London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Bern, Budapest, Helsinki, Honolulu. Dimmed-out cities: Moscow, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Bombay...
...Devil. Bern reported that German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had slipped into Italy for crucial talks with Italian Foreign Minister Raffele Guarig-lia (see p. 23). In any haggling with Germany, the Badoglio Government stood at a disadvantage. The Nazis held as hostages for Italian conduct some 400,000 Italian workers in Germany, some 25 Italian divisions hemmed by the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. German troops had occupied the strategic sectors of northern Italy. The Nazi position seemed clear: if the Allies would not accept a neutral Italy, the Germans would accept nothing but Italy's continued alliance...
...evolution," seemingly, had reached the stage at which the Quirinal wanted to arrest it. From Bern came this report, based on documentary sources...