Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles told newsmen that the U.S. had information of a new plan of German aggression: against the remaining independent nations in Europe. Newsmen went to the maps and counted the neutral, independent European nations. Only five seemed even semi-independent: Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey. Once there were 26 independents...
More than 90% of General Aniline's stock is owned "of record" by the I. G. Chemie of Switzerland, but nobody has said who the "beneficial" (real) owners are. I. G. Chemie is a holding company, set up by and once on intimate terms with I. G. Farben. The intimacy was ostensibly terminated a year ago; I. G. Chemie paid I. G. Farben 25,000,000 Swiss francs, and the Farben's interest in I. G. Chemie seemed almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz...
...left Germany for Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life. He disliked the country intensely, regarded it as "a waiting room plastered with Swiss views." But in the 13th-Century Muzot Castle, he delivered his final elegies: those tremendous, all but murderous mysteries of mind, swarming with "exciting, dangerous, forbidding" angels, which Mrs. Butler calls "the strangest perhaps of all the strange poems our century has produced." Rilke is one of the most difficult of poets to translate; but this passage on angels will faintly suggest both his quality and the violence of the Muzot experience...
Europe's two stanchest neutrals remained stanchly neutral: Switzerland and Turkey. Turkey apparently accepted Russia's denial that Foreign Commissar Molotov had asked Hitler for bases on the Dardanelles. To a French request for passage of troops to Syria, Turkey said...
...last he had labored for his beloved Poland. Poland's Premier after World War I, he was now the figurehead President of its parliament in exile. On his 80th birthday, last November, he arrived in the U.S. from his villa in Switzerland. Since then, Paderewski spent himself making public appeals for money for starving Poles. Last week, ill of a cold, against his doctor's orders he made one more appearance in New Jersey. As a result he contracted pneumonia and two days later, in his Manhattan hotel, he died. At the suggestion of President Roosevelt, he will...