Word: stanislao
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...consulates in France for visas, numbers of Europe's homeless royalty hurried across the Franco-Spanish border before the Nazi invader. Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and members of her family were among early arrivals, followed by Her Highness the Maharanee of Kapurthala. Already an exile, Polish Pianist Stanislao Nielziesld sought new refuge in Spain, as did famed Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime French Socialist Premier...
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