Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interfere with work on the same problem currently being done by existing agencies; and that no country would be asked to receive more immigrants than its current quota laws permit. Invitations to help set up the committee went to Great Britain, France. Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and 20 South American republics...
...Palace. During a brief stay in Geneva he piqued League officials by ignoring their new $10,000,000 palace, instead motored to nearby Morges and chatted "about old times" with his friend of 40 years, 77-year-old Pianist-Politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski, former Premier of Poland, now in Switzerland...
...elderly man with soft, inquisitive eyes and a flowing halo of white hair ambled in & out of Fine Hall, pausing to admire the changing season. He had always felt close to Nature-ever since his unhappy childhood in Munich, his happy youth in Italy, his placid days in Switzerland when he worked for the Berne patent office and pondered the structure of the world...
...death in Switzerland last October of a pleasant Parisian gentleman named Jean de Brunhoff ended the adventures of one of the world's most endearing elephants. Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were...
...Principality of Liechtenstein, 65 square miles of territorial pie wedged between Austria and Switzerland, is ruled by 84-year-old Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein. Last week Prince Franz must have been personally alarmed by the nearby appetite of Nazi Germany-for his wealthy Viennese wife, former Baroness Gutmann, is of Jewish descent, and much of his property is in Austria. But for his country he professed unconcern, announcing: "We have no fear regarding foreign intervention...