Word: switzerland
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Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...purely temporal aspects of Germany's road back, Theologian Barth also had ideas. From TIME's correspondent in Switzerland came cabled excerpts from the latest Barth brochure, How to Cure the Germans. Excerpts...
Eighteen years later, when Switzerland had been invaded by the French, and hundreds of half-starved, ignorant, homeless children roamed the country, Pestalozzi gathered together as many as he could, and started an orphan school in Stans. "We wept and smiled together," he wrote. "They forgot the world . . . and only knew they were with me and I with them. ... I sought less to teach [them] to spell, read and write than to make use of these exercises for the purpose of giving their minds as full and as varied a development as possible." In the end he succeeded. Talleyrand...
This week, to mark Pestalozzi's 200th birthday, the Swiss Government officially designated Heinrich Pestalozzi as Switzerland's Man of the Year...
...Last Chance (International refugees escape into Switzerland; TIME...