Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Window glass came from Czechoslovakia; the Austrian government provided enough cots for the school's dormitories. One staff group signed food contracts and arranged financial affairs in Switzerland. Later a squad drove to Prague and persuaded the Czech government to ship the first meat exports in its history to Leopoldskron. And most important, the administrators carried on a constant long-distance struggle with many European officials to obtain visas for would-be students...
...Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler a good shaking up, and as a result of it more than 50 general staff officers died. Author Gisevius, one of the few plotters who survived, went into hiding, escaped to Switzerland when the OSS smuggled him a forged passport. Readers may balk at the rightist, sometimes self-righteous tone of his book, but they will find it by far the fullest account to date of anti-Hitler plotting...
Someone swore he had heard Conductor Klemperer mutter that the new opera was dreadful. Festival authorities, however, quickly announced that Klemperer "had found the ardors of conducting too strenuous; he has gone to Switzerland to recuperate." They recalled Klemperer's physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946); he is still partially paralyzed, and can play the piano only with his left hand. Yet Klemperer conducted a concert in Interlaken two days after walking out of the rehearsal, and he is scheduled to return to Salzburg to conduct a Mahler symphony this week...
Strenuous Rest. At the fashionable Waldhaus in Sils, Switzerland, Conductor Klemperer was not very communicative about his wrestlings with the Einem score. He showed up in the hotel lobby in bright green corduroy shorts, white sleeveless shirt, his thin white legs encased in striped silk socks. Yes, he felt he needed a rest, he said. It was a strenuous rest: he was playing tennis, going for long walks, working on two compositions of his own, sitting up late alone evenings over a benedictine with mineral water in the hotel bar. Did he like Einem's opera? Klemperer was guarded...
...large part of this hoard is immobilized in private hoards or as currency reserves. And nations which need gold and dollars least hold the most. An example: liberated western Europe has less than half of its prewar stock of $5.4 billion. But well-fed, well-clothed Switzerland alone holds $1.4 billion of the Continent's hoard...