Word: freiherr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really runs Switzerland is lady-killing Baron von Bibera, the German Minister." (No Minister is Freiherr Sigismund von Bibra-Lanius misspelled his name-but Botschaftsrat, i.e. Counsellor of Embassy; and Switzerland, independent since 1291, is still ruled by its seven-man Federal Council...
...existence in the U. S. of Bunds. Communists. Fascist shirt groups is no news. To U. S. ears last week there was something more blundering than sinister in the reported blurt of the Nazi Consul General in New Orleans, lean-faced Edgar Freiherr Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim: "Germany will not forget that when she was waging a struggle for her very life the U. S. did everything in its power to aid her enemies.'' When those words were published in the New Orleans States, the indignant baron said that he made the comment off the record. Later...