Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Others count themselves lucky merely to get occupation outside Hitler's jurisdiction. Last week Kurt Goldstein, Berlin neurologist, was in Switzerland. Ludwig Halberstaedter was in Palestine, where the American Jewish Physicians' Committee and Hadassah (women's Zionist organiza- tion) hope to build a hospital and medical school. German refugees would have staff opportunities with both. Bernhard Zondek, Berlin gynecologist who helped devise a positive test for pregnancy, has invitations from Stockholm and Leyden. Safely back in Manhattan, where he is a naturalized U. S. citizen, is Gustav Bucky, Berlin cancer specialist. Another able medical emigre in Manhattan...
...Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over the Alps in an airplane and started a similar round of visits on his own. Hurrying to Rome to see what it was all about came Istvan Antal, press chief of Hungary and special representative of Premier Gombos, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland and the Polish Minister to Berlin, Dr. Alfred Wysocki. Also in Rome, though only an unnoticed bystander, was that exuberant British Fascist, 'Sir Oswald Mosley, who put in his word: "Fascism can and will win England...
Prominent in the collection are pictures, programs, and placards from the European trip through France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy in the summer of 1921. A letter from the French foreign minister to President Lowell commending the Club for its fine performances in France is shown, along with several photographs...
...Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland Uruguay, speaking out for a change in the Constitution, offering to resign the Presidency to hasten reform. Then he favored Switzerland's commission form of government or a chief executive with a Cabinet elected by Parliament. He warned Uruguayans strongly against a strong executive head like the U. S. President...
...Akron evidently, had gone the 71; among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz...