Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-mannered, 37-year-old Newscaster Shirer, blind in one eye from a skiing accident in Switzerland, is a radio phenomenon. Before he joined CBS. in 1937, he had an eventful, but by no means dazzling, career as correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and Universal News Service. High point of his career in foreign-news service was a period he spent in India for the Tribune, which netted a close friendship with Mohandas K. Gandhi. A product of that time was a novel about India. He didn't think about publishing it until he scored with Berlin Diary...
Presumably relations with Vichyfrance would be broken off. Ambassador William D. Leahy would be recalled and praised for having stalled the break for so long. This week, at any rate, Admiral Leahy went to Switzerland for what he described as "some good food and fresh...
Since 1291 the Swiss have ruled themselves, except for a brief period during the French Revolution. Last week, as the runners scattered to light fires in each of Switzerland's 22 cantons, Switzerland, although squeezed.by Hitler's economic ring, if not the master of her destiny, is still her own boss, is still in love with freedom, still can mobilize 525,000 troops and reserves and 750,000 trained, sharpshooting men willing to fight...
Europe's new literary exiles - like Voltaire and Rousseau in 18th-Century Switzerland and Holland - now find in the U.S. a place to publish their works in their own languages. Since no new books are published in France of which the Nazis disapprove, the U.S. is the chief soil on which the French language sur vives as a free medium of expression...
Gottfried Bermann-Fischer's firm in Germany which 40 years ago brought out Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and thereafter sold 1,300,000 copies. The doctor opposed the Nazis even after Hitler came to power, moved his business to Vienna, fled with his family to Switzerland, to Stockholm, finally...