Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moslem custom decreed that the bride should be absent. Because of another custom, the couple had never met until two weeks before the wedding. (Rumors that they had met and fallen in love in Switzerland were last week denied.) The Crown Prince's strong-willed father, Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, had arranged the match so as to bring together not only Egypt and Iran but also two great Moslem sects, the Sunni and Shiah, which for years have been as unmixable as oil and water...
...more famous talent driven to the U. S. by warmaking abroad, Antonin Raymond is a bony, thin-lipped man of 50, with sunken cheeks and an ascetic affability. Born in Prague, he was once a U. S. assistant military attache in Switzerland, an engineer-architect with the late Cass Gilbert. Frank Lloyd Wright took him to Tokyo in 1919 to help build the Imperial Hotel. Raymond stayed there, became Japan's foremost modern builder. He employed as many as 100 men in his Tokyo office, did 600 jobs, including the U. S., French, Soviet. Belgian and Manchukuoan embassy buildings...
Cardinal Maglione is a seasoned diplomat who went to school with Eugenio Pacelli, has in recent years been Papal Nuncio in Switzerland and in France. When he was sent to France in 1926, he was coldly received as "pro-German." Before he left in 1936, he had grown so close to the French Government that he was reported to have had a hand in the Hoare-Laval peace offer during the Italo-Ethi-opian War. Last week, before he was named, the German and Italian Governments actively opposed Cardinal Magli-one's candidacy for Secretary of State...
...Principality of Liechtenstein, a five-by-twelve-mile independent State in the central Alps between Austria and Switzerland, is dogged but slow. Back in 1866, when Liechtenstein decided to join Austria and go to war against Prussia, its Army...
...Invite." Pius XII does not smoke, eats sparingly, drinks little wine. He has been accustomed to vacation yearly in Switzerland or in Italy's Montecatini. He keeps his lean, six-foot frame in condition by exercising in a completely equipped gymnasium in his Secretary of State's apartments-from which, presumably, he will move as soon as the late Pope's living quarters, two floors above, are redecorated. On his first day as Pope, Pius XII rose at 6 a.m., shaved himself with his electric razor, celebrated Mass, breakfasted on coffee and rolls, then embarked upon...