Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearded, 15th Century Nicolas de Flue is worshiped by all Switzerland as a national hero, and was regarded by Luther and Zwingli as a precursor of the Reformation. Last week, with trumpets, processions, floodlights and a pontifical High Mass, he became a Roman Catholic saint...
...town of Sarnen from a conflagration), with the gift of prophecy and with visions. High dignitaries of church & state sought him out in his ravine, where a cell and chapel were finally built to replace his hut of branches and leaves. In 1480 he is credited with saving Switzerland from civil war and possible partition...
...native Sachseln began saying prayers to him. According to canon law, this would have permanently disqualified him for sainthood: there is a rule that no public prayers may be said to the departed until Rome has approved the beatification. But in 1669 Pope Clement IX delighted even Switzerland's Protestants by cutting ecclesiastical red tape and authorizing Nicolas de Flue's beatification...
...their first-hand observations of the European scene, and have found that such a viewpoint provides a matter-of-fact, often illuminating postscript to the excellent reports of trained American journalists. A case in point is TIME's advertising director, Harry Phillips, who went to England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and The Netherlands to examine postwar business conditions there and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. Some excerpts from his strictly personal report of his trip may interest...
Stassen: Yes, in general, but there are some countries . . . Switzerland, Czechoslovakia...