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Iviglia painstakingly built up a case against famed Bern Dealer Henry Werro, 67-year-old former president of the Swiss Violin Dealers Association. Werro hastily repurchased five violins and a cello from angry customers for a total of about $60,000 before he was brought to trial on 20-odd charges of forgery of names and labels. The top violin traders in Paris, London, Amsterdam and New York, who have for years passed on the authenticity of old violins, almost unanimously supported Werro. Seventy-year-old Albert Phillips-Hill of London's sacrosanct W.E. Hill & Sons, and himself known...
...with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain and the second in or near Europe (the other is in Bern, Switzerland). The new temple was opened to the public for 17 days, but after its dedication this week, only Mormons may enter who have been "recommended for participation in the various ceremonies" and bear certificates from their local churches that they are "morally clean, have paid their tithes, sustain...
...into Washington's George Washington University Law School. There, an old foot injury kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk in the U.S. legation in neutral, window-on-the-world Bern, Switzerland. Murphy's two-year record was summed up by a colleague, a young diplomat named Allen Welsh Dulles: "Work, work, work...
...territory, though bankers and businessmen cheered the ability of the U.S. to move swiftly and decisively in the Middle East. But when United Press International's President Frank H. Bartholomew wrote after a visit to Switzerland: "Diplomats and counterintelligence agents say the Iraqi revolt 'was born in Bern,' " government and press alike went through the roof of the Alps. Bartholomew reported estimates that the Reds disbursed $1,000,000 a week to Western European agents through Switzerland, much of the money coming from traffic in drugs...
Early in September 1954 nine young Algerian exiles met in a rented house outside Bern, Switzerland to plan the scattered hit-and-run raids which ultimately ballooned into the Algerian revolt. Of the nine original moujahids (freedom fighters), three are now dead and five are in French prisons. The only one still at large is Belkacem Krim, 35, now the senior military man in Algeria's Front de Libération Nationale. Like most Algerian rebel leaders, moody Belkacem Krim, who has five death sentences hanging over his balding head, rarely discusses his personal activities. But from Paris last...