Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really been no vacation at all-just a parade of visiting politicians and prelates exhorting him to return to, or keep out of Belgium. But the Belgian Parliament had decided that he should not come home to Brussels. Last week the Swiss Government gave him permission to move into Switzerland, probably to his late father's chateau on Lake Lucerne. It was from there that he had set out ten years ago on the fatal motor tour which resulted in the death of Queen Astrid. Moodily, the King gave the order to pack the royal bags...
...Vansittart [TiME, July 16] conveniently "forgets" to take into account the fact that the "Germans" of whom Velleius Paterculus wrote were the people who lived in northern Europe in the land which then included not only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...
Happy Days. In 1925, soon after Father became President of the Swaraj (Self-Rule) Party, Jawaharlal's wife fell ill and had to be taken to Switzerland. Krishna joined her brother there, and went from one international conference to another as his secretary. "The happiest time I spent was in Switzerland and Paris," she writes. "Often I have wished I could go back to those days and meet old friends again...
Hell & High Water. Across the world, over the uncertain radio channels between Tokyo and Europe, the same message in diplomatic code creaked along via the neutral governments of Sweden (for relay to Russia and Britain) and Switzerland (for relay to the U.S. and China). While the world throbbed with the known news, the President went on with his day's work...
Radio Tokyo broadcast a high-command communiquí announcing renewed offensives on all fronts, then withdrew it. The Emperor called in Foreign Minister Togo. A Tokyo radio operator, chatting with a station in Switzerland, said that an important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...