Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work, too. I can be described, I hope, as a 'working" monarch...
...where besides music by fellow Czechs Smetana and Janacek he will conduct Countryman Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony), Rafael will set out again. After an engagement as guest conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will head back to Europe for orchestra dates in Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that of resident conductor of the BBC Symphony, replacing retiring Director...
Between better-than-average battle seenes and grave partisan conferences, the aristocrats are shown making merry, fleeing to Switzerland, flirting with German officers, aiding the underground, and worrying about gunfire's effect on their nerves. At least this rescues them from the black-and-white situation in which the rest of the cast finds itself...
King Leopold III of the Belgians and his beautiful wife were happily packing their bags last week in their lakeside villa at Pregny, Switzerland, where they have been whiling away their long exile. They were in hopeful spirits. General Emile Bethouart, French High Commissioner in Austria, had invited them for a week of hunting in the Tyrol. After that, there was a chance that they might go on to Brussels. A decision on the King's future was finally at hand...
...week's end, Parisians, like Londoners, had joined the lunacy wholeheartedly. Said the Paris theater manager: "The greatest sensation the American theater has ever given France." Streetcar still had stops to make in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and Australia...