Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parisian Jeweler Pierre C. Cartier. Adrien Thierry, French Ambassador to Argentina, was more fortunate than French Leftist leaders who were reported to have found both Spanish and Swiss borders closed to them. (But an Italian broadcast said onetime French Socialist Premier Leon Blum and several French deputies had entered Switzerland...
Farther south, 50,000 troops of the eastern Maginot garrisons fought a fierce but losing fight on the Maiche Plain before retreating across the border into Switzerland. The onrushing German columns, their tanks and trucks beginning to break down after strenuous campaigning, pushed down through Lyon, "Pittsburgh of France," but a segment of fierce French resistance formed west of there at Clermont-Ferrand and with other French remnants from the Belfort district momentarily pocketed the German elements...
...Bavarian crags. More spotty are the Arditi divisions, supposed to be shock troops picked for bravery from the general run of infantry. Of 1,500,000 soldiers Italy had under arms last week, about 700,000 were believed to be on the "Littorio Line" from the Riviera to Switzerland, 300,000 farther east (or going up to Germany) under Crown Prince Umberto, 220,000 (black & white) in Libya, 100,000 in Italian East Africa, 100.000 in Sardinia and Sicily, 80,000 in Albania...
...Communist, and bored from within. When Hitler came into power the whole Black Front went underground or, by thousands, into concentration camps. Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers. In Vienna, in Prague, in Switzerland, in Saarbrükken, he had a series of escapes from the long arm of the Gestapo...
...twelve-year-old Walter Cunningham, who is lame but game and liable to seizures of asthma. Ellery's harder job is to satisfy Walter's mother of his absolute trustworthiness and interest in Walter. It isn't so bad as long as they are stranded in Switzerland, but when they move to southern France, within a few miles of Francis' beloved Lorna Higham, it becomes unpleasant, virtually impossible. Ellery's consequent frustrations, quarrels, subtle humiliations could hardly be more cruelly told...