Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's ramifying political influence, which caused the resignation of Iran's Premier Said last week, also forced out the Foreign Minister and President-elect of Switzerland - Marcel Pilet-Golaz...
...international mystery was still publicly unsolved: why had the Russians withdrawn from the International Civil Aviation Conference in Chicago at the last minute? Russia had announced that it was because Spain, Portugal and Switzerland had been invited (TIME, Nov. 6). The six Russian delegates, who had reached Winnipeg en route to Chicago last week climbed into their plane again, flew back to Russia without touching U.S. soil. From informed Washington sources close to the Russians, some light was shed by this frank explanation of the Russian position...
...From Switzerland came a rumor with direct bearing on the Italian campaign. The report: burly, ex-Airman Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, sparkplug of the wily German defense, had followed in the tire-tracks of the late Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, been "very seriously" wounded by Allied planes which sent his automobile spinning axle over top near Bologna. Berlin said nothing...
Russia's withdrawal from the conference was announced just three days before it opened. Russia's stated reason: "Countries like Switzerland, Portugal and Spain, which for many years have conducted a profascist policy hostile to the Soviet Union, have also been invited...
...André Malraux (Man's Hope; Man's Fate), radical novelist, wrote one book (published in Switzerland as Les Noyers de l'Altembourg), lived with the Maquis and F.F.I., became a colonel. Wounded, captured, liberated in time's nick during the invasion, thin, nervy Malraux is now fighting at the front. ¶ Jean Cocteau, famed Surrealist specialist in films and plays, had trouble when collaborationists released rats and tear gas in the theater where one of his plays was put on; they also punched his nose when he refused to salute a pro-German parade...