Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were Ignace Reiss (assistant chief of the West European Section of the NKVD), General Walter Ginsberg Krivitsky (chief of the West European Section of the Red Army's Military Intelligence) and Alexander Barmine. Reiss's body was found riddled with 15 bullets on a lonely road in Switzerland. Krivitsky's body was found in an obscure Washington, D. C. hotel. Barmine lived to tell this tale...
...whispering behind locked Spanish royalist doors in Switzerland was all but deafening. Spain's royal family, in exile since 1931, was getting interested in the situation at home...
...Switzerland royalist eardrums were strained almost to the bursting point. But the awaited word was not heard. Franco, though clearly a monarchist, had failed to say who would be king-or when...
...winter mean temperature not below freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...
Kruger led his handful of men against thousands of British regulars for six months, then made a desperate trip to Europe in search of aid. He died in Switzerland in 1904, and it was left to mere youths such as Smuts, Botha and Hertzog to build and shape today's Anglo-Boer Dominion of South Africa...