Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herman A. J. K. de Jonge Canton de Vaud, Switzerland--International School of Geneva...
...stops wars, but pointed out too that China's finances, almost as precarious, have been in general improving as Japan's declined. Busily touring Europe recently, drumming up loans has been rotund Dr. H. H. Kung, China's Minister of Finance. Loans he got, both in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Britain but just how much no one could say. They were enough at least for him to visit Vienna where he trotted about happily in a green Tyrolean hat complete with feather, placing munitions orders. From Vienna he retired to famed Bad Nauheim to rest. But there...
...German who has undoubtedly been of interest to Langen & Co. is Harvard-educated Ernst ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, onetime chief of Foreign Press Relations in Germany and a favorite of Hitler, who liked to hear him play the piano. Last February Putzy fell from grace, fled to Switzerland, thence to London. He had indiscreetly called Joachim von Ribbentrop Nazi Ambassador to London, "Bnckendrop."* He had referred to the Moors fighting in Spain for German-aided General Franco as the "new friends of Aryan culture...
...never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household goods, made a small fortune speculating in foodstuffs during the Civil War, a larger one importing petticoat lace from Switzerland. Needing little prompting, his sons, assured by their father that they would each make a million dollars, entered the business as soon as they got out of short pants...
...gentleman scholar at 15. he had "no duties and many privileges." Discovering that nobody minded if he cut classes, he spent most of the school year traveling, studied in the summer. Kicked out of Oxford for joining the Catholic Church, he was turned over to a freethinker in Switzerland, where he went in for society, became an addict of the French theatre after seeing Voltaire in one of his own plays, prided himself on becoming a man of the world instead of being "steeped in port and prejudice among the monks at Oxford...