Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullet-riddled body of Ignace Reiss, a Soviet secret agent who renounced Stalinism, was found in a ditch outside Lausanne, Switzerland, seven months...
...theologian's theologian, one of the most famed in the world, is Dr. Karl Barth. Exiled three years ago from Germany, his adopted land and spiritual home, he has settled in Switzerland, his birthplace. U. S. Protestants have been slow to approve and understand this Calvinist, although. Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the ablest of Protestant theologians, has been influenced by him. and Princeton Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian stronghold, has shown leanings toward Barthianism. Of European conditions upon which Barthianism battens. Manhattan clergymen lately were given a vivid picture of Dr. Adolf Keller, Swiss colleague of Dr. Barth. Declaring...
Snow-bearded, 84-year-old Prince Franz Paul I, ruler of the 65-square-mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles up in the central Alps between Switzerland and Greater Germany (see map), has not visited his tiny nation for five years. He has run his Government by long-distance from Vienna and his Czechoslovakian estates. Last week the aged ruler suddenly abdicated at his hunting lodge near Semmering, Austria, named his 31-year-old third cousin, mustached, dapper Prince Franz Joseph, as his successor...
...Cabinet, give several posts to National Union Nazis. At the same time His Highness issued a whistling-in-the-dark assurance. "There is almost no Naziism in Liechtenstein," he said. "The population is content to live in a small independent state and wishes to continue the close union with Switzerland." Since 1924 Liechtenstein has been a member of the Swiss customs union, since 1921 has used Swiss currency, has Swiss-administered postal and telegraph systems...
...stayed outside the club. In 1930 Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art gave him the first big U. S. exhibition. When Germany became inclement to modern art five years ago, stern-faced, gentle Fantasist Klee settled near his birthplace in Berne, Switzerland, to paint, play Mozart with his wife, study nature. Last week's show at Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery was the largest, most comprehensive he has ever...