Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months CBS's short-wave listening post picked up a newscast aired by the celebrated German Freiheitsender-the secret "Freedom Station" the Nazis have repeatedly tried to suppress. Giving no location, announcing simply that his program was "Germany Speaking," the Freiheitsender commentator, who may have been speaking from Switzerland, mocked Göring on the failure of his second four-year plan, which ended last week, contended Hitler had overrun Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries and France because ersatz food and gasoline had failed him, declared the only people not weeping in Germany "are the rascals...
...revived it in 1814. Under Franco and Petain the Jesuits have been freed from decrees aimed against them by Republican Spain and France. Last January they were given permission to enter Greece for the first time since the 17th Century. Only country which now formally bars them is Switzerland...
Clement was allowed to keep his ambulance and work in the German Army. Eventually he got back to Brussels and from there, with a diplomatic mission, to Switzerland, where he still remains...
...seats in the Swiss National Council issued a statement publicly regretting that the President had received the Nationalists. Many Swiss smelled "appeasement" by President Pilet-Golaz, the more so because Adolf Hitler's personal newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter was again allowed to circulate in Switzerland. What the Swiss think the Swiss could do if Mr. Hitler chose to circulate in person through their Axis-surrounded cantons was anybody's guess...
Premier Mussolini sent a pilot train full of Italian police to lead the Hohenzollern Special across Italy from Yugoslavia to Switzerland, and at Lugano station Carol was cheered by Swiss as he alighted smiling and took Magda to a swank hotel overlooking the lake. They dined sumptuously with the Rumanian Minister to Switzerland, sitting at table until after 10 p.m., applied to Vichy by telegraph for permission to settle on the French Riviera. The Vichy Government hemmed & hawed. The Axis might not like...