Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Felix Salten, 76, Viennese essayist, novelist, dramatist, known in the U.S. only for his sometimes touching, sometimes saccharine books about animals (most famed: Bambi, Disneyized in 1942) ; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...Switzerland, Belgium's Leopold bowed to temporary exile, but by no means to permanent renunciation of his throne...
Rewards. For those who resisted Nazi favors, things were looking up. Both Casals and Thibaud, waiting for the tribunal to meet, were passing their time concertizing in France, Switzerland and England. Conductor Paul Paray, who defied Cortot by resigning from the Lyon radio symphony rather than fire Jews, announced that he was off to the U.S. to conduct the Boston Symphony...
...fence along its eastern frontier to keep war criminals out, the peewee principality of Liechtenstein (area 65 sq. mi., pop. 11,500) last week coasted calmly into the problems of peace. No invader had threatened its soil or sovereignty, but new ideas had spilled over from neighboring Italy, Austria, Switzerland...
Caudillo without a King. As Leopold prepared to enter Switzerland, another royal scion was asked to leave it. To the modest Lausanne villa of Don Juan, the Spanish Pretender, came two august emissaries from Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They were reported to bear the Caudillo's long deferred invitation to return to Spain. Aspiring Don Juan had waited patiently for 14 years. Perhaps it was time for him too to pack...