Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Principality of Liechtenstein, 65 square miles of territorial pie wedged between Austria and Switzerland, is ruled by 84-year-old Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein. Last week Prince Franz must have been personally alarmed by the nearby appetite of Nazi Germany-for his wealthy Viennese wife, former Baroness Gutmann, is of Jewish descent, and much of his property is in Austria. But for his country he professed unconcern, announcing: "We have no fear regarding foreign intervention...
Members of the Trio are Franz Siedersbeck, Erich Wilke, and Miss Dohme, originally from Baltimore, who has spent many years in Germany studying manuscripts and drawings of "fiedels" none of which had survived the middle ages...
HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE - Franz Werfel- Viking...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...
...WILD GOOSE CHASE-Rex Warner -Knopf ($2.75). A lengthy, parabolic fantasy about three brothers who go into a far country to chase the symbolic Wile Geese. English Author Warner admires the mystical novels of Franz Kafka. Publisher Knopf believes that this book is perhaps another Gulliver's Travels. Hard boiled readers will find it like the curate...