Word: lanius
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...came from the U.S., a nation which the Swiss consider their great & good friend. The author was Charles Lanius, ex-NBC radio reporter, back in the U.S. from a year's stay in Bern. His Saturday Evening Post article, "Switzerland, Axis Captive," though "softened" by State Department suggestion, still packed enough punch to make the Swiss and their friends hopping mad. Of Switzerland Lanius had written...
...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...
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