Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This cheerful hint to the U.S. radio industry was offered last week as a serious opinion by a man entitled to have one-Arno Huth, encyclopedic international radio investigator of Switzerland's Geneva Research Center (TIME...
...fought in the undulating countryside just west of where the Rhine divides (into the Waal and Lek) for its final course to the sea. Here the rich burghers of Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam once had summer villas and liked to call its pleasant hills and forested hummocks "Little Switzerland." Here there were three fine towns: Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, rich in the histories of ancient wars and in the traditions of peaceful living. And here Allied parachutists dropped behind German units like pieces on a checkerboard hopping over their opposition...
...Khan, multimillionaire spiritual ruler of some 12,000,000 Ismaili Moslems in India and Africa, took a constructive attitude toward the postwar world by buying some new horses and lining up a new bride.* The pumpkin-shaped sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired...
Millions of women and older men were being taught the rudiments of guerrilla warfare: handling rifles, planting mines, hurling grenades, taking cover. The German press coined a new slogan: "We will fight before the Rhine, on the Rhine and, if we must, behind the Rhine." German businessmen, visiting Switzerland, said revolt at home was out of the question: Himmler had too firm a grip. Hitler could still command a substantial majority in a free election because the Germans saw no alternative. Home-front morale was higher than the Wehrmacht's. Only frightful chaos and Bolshevism could result...
Justice of another kind quickly overtook the Vichy regime. Switzerland withdrew recognition of the Vichy Government, prepared to recognize the Government of General Charles de Gaulle. The Vatican ceased to recognize Vichy. Sweden and Turkey bowed out. Spain and Portugal raced for the privilege of dropping the hot cake, ended in a dead heat of disclaimers against Vichy's further right to diplomatic recognition...