Word: carpathians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maps published a year ago showed where the San River ran, past towns with unpronounceable names, out of the Carpathian foothills; the stories told in plausible, abstract terms how populations would be shifted from this side to that side of new lines on a map. Neither maps nor stories showed the whitewashed cottages of Galicia nor told how the people who lived there felt about...
Young Moennig was apprenticed to his father for 15 years in Philadelphia before he was allowed to study in the Saxon village of Markneukirchen, where, since 1622, ten generations of Moennigs have fashioned string instruments. He brought back to Philadelphia enough seasoned Carpathian spruce and Tirolese maple to make 300 fiddles-which, at the rate of four new violins a year, will take a long time. He is convinced-that the wood is what counts. Harvard once made electrical tone tests of imitation Strads and Amatis that Moennig had built for the Curtis Quartet-and reported them slightly better than...
Karski was sent to France. With a Polish prince, a young lieutenant and a guide, he went to the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathian range. They posed as a skiing party, never speaking to passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...
...Russian armies were near, one in the Carpathian passes in the north, the other south in Hungary. But while the Russians bogged down, short of supplies, the Germans fell on the new army with all their might. Announced Berlin on November 4: the First Czechoslovak Army had been wiped out, lost 10,000 prisoners, 267 planes, 104 tanks, 309 guns. General Viest and his Chief of Staff. Brigadier General Karol Golian, had been captured...
...Russian army group fighting in Hungary had been stalled some 50 miles from Budapest for several weeks. Last week General Ivan Y. Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian army group fighting southward from Czechoslovakia eased the supply problem. A railroad and a road pass across the Carpathians were taken, and thus southern Poland and Hungary were linked through Transylvania. Five other Carpathian passes were also captured. Now Petrov needed only to meet roving Cossack cavalry and tanks from eastern Hungary to complete additional links...