Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came from the U.S., a nation which the Swiss consider their great & good friend. The author was Charles Lanius, ex-NBC radio reporter, back in the U.S. from a year's stay in Bern. His Saturday Evening Post article, "Switzerland, Axis Captive," though "softened" by State Department suggestion, still packed enough punch to make the Swiss and their friends hopping mad. Of Switzerland Lanius had written...
...After release by Rabbi Leo Jung of The Jewish Center of New York City. It was smuggled out by way of Switzerland...
Correspondents in Switzerland, who get most of their news from tipsters and the radio, last week cabled reports that Premier Ion Antonescu had arrested 4,000 members of the fascist Iron Guard and executed 80 for a plot to overthrow his Government. The facts were...
...Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeléeff classified the probable chemical elements in 1869 and arranged them in the periodic table, scientists have looked for a fifth member of the halogen family: fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine. Now the hypothetical eka-iodine (i.e., next to iodine) has finally been isolated in Bern, Switzerland. Thus Mendeléeff's table has now been realized, substantially as he predicted, with 92 elements (unless there are others heavier than uranium, which chemists think unlikely...
...knew where the report originated. The dispatch to a London news paper from Switzerland indicated an Axis source. A New York Herald Tribune dis patch from London surmised that the suggestion came originally from Pope Pius XII. Said the London Catholic Times: "If a sound agreement could be reached for claiming Rome an open city, it would be welcomed by the mass of Europeans, but no such agreement has been announced to date and there is no evidence of one being negotiated by the Holy See." No earthly power could guarantee safety for Pope Pius if bombers ever swarmed over...