Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vittorio Orlando had not died under Gestapo guns, as British newsmen in Switzerland reported. From the Rome radio last week came a denial of the story. From Italy's aged (84), retired World War I premier came an alleged comment: "If I was shot, it must have been done with the greatest delicacy, for I assure you I really was not aware...
Despite the hindrances of the war and various censorships, Shapley mentioned, telegraphic communications during the year have reported astronomical work from Russia, Finland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Rumania, Demnark, and Argentina. Cablegrams to Europe are sent through the observatory at Lund, Sweden...
Newsmen in Switzerland reported that the reprisals had just begun. Hours later, according to these reports, vans carried 300 to the ancient, crumbling Colosseum where once gladiators fought and Christians died. They had been picked at random...
...Rumania to get in return northern Transylvania, which Hitler had transferred to Hungary in 1940; to remain sovereign and nonCommunist; to be occupied by U.S. and British troops as well as Russian. This week an unnamed diplomat in Switzerland threw back his cloak just long enough to reveal what he said would be the Allied answer: strikingly parallel terms, except a reminder to Rumanians that northern Bukovina would have to go back with Bessarabia...
Swiss Ground Commander: "You are over Switzerland...