Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manufacturing capacity and all the wonderful technical, scientific, industrial, etc. discoveries and advances which have come from your country . . . . But no one in the world respects anything of your country, in the full and real sense of the word like one does an Einstein, British Justice, Sweden, Toscanini, Switzerland, the dignity and patriotism of the Germans hung in Nuörnberg in a disgraceful parody of justice, a Nobel prize winner, etc., etc. The only respect a citizen of the U.S.A. may claim from the world would be the respect of fear, because of his country's might...
From Hungary: Paul Auer is Hungary's Minister to Paris. He is an international lawyer of Europe-wide reputation, who turned diplomat a year ago. Between World Wars I & II, he was a frequent legal adviser to the French Government and acted for the U.S. legation in Switzerland on some cases with which the League of Nations was concerned. Long an advocate of international cooperation and of European federation, Lawyer Auer in 1936 offered a plan to strengthen the League of Nations by adding to it an economic and social council. The League did not adopt this idea...
Died. Baron Robert de Rothschild, 66, who, with his cousin Baron Edouard de Rothschild, headed the Rothschild bank in Paris before the Nazi occupation; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lifelong racing enthusiast, he owned one of the most famous stables in prewar France, a private track, a polo field (where he played under the name M. Errer). Another property: Chateau Lafite-Roths-child, producer of one of the world's best red wines...
...Question. Fifty years ago Herzl, after presiding at the first Zionist Congress, wrote in his diary that within 50 years the world would have heard of his dream of a Jewish state. Last week delegates to the 22nd World Zionist Congress, meeting in Basel, Switzerland, where Herzl's group had met, knew with pride and some disquiet that his prophecy had been fulfilled...
...tentative prices: ¶ A 25-day tour of Europe with passage on the liner America, six days in England (unless England is still pinched), three days in Scotland, three in Holland, one in Brussels, three in Paris, two in Normandy (to see the landing beaches), and five days in Switzerland. Cost: $1,000 to $1,500. ¶ A 14-to-21 day tour, depending on whether the tourist goes by plane or boat, to London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, with one and a half days for detours. Costs: $650 to $1,130 by ship, $785 to $985 by plane. But warned...