Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung is one of the lonely islands of press freedom in a sea of European press restrictions. A smug, conservative old newspaper NZZ is to the Swiss what the London Times is to Britons. Unfrightened by the fact that Germany is less than 20 miles from Zurich, NZZ dares to tell the truth when it gets mad enough. Mad enough last week, NZZ said...
...Abstract Painter Hélion began to plot his escape. With the aid of a Shell Oil road map he had found, Hélion spent months studying a route to Switzerland. Suddenly he was moved to a camp at Stettin in eastern Germany. There he was made prison interpreter, got himself elected "representative" by the other prisoners. He gained the confidence of the Nazis. Meanwhile he picked up vital facts about the geography of the district. Again he began to plan escape...
...observers were disbelieving. It was said that the weighty, 63-year-old warrior, having assembled a civilian suit from gift boxes, had let himself down some 60 ft. of Giraud-made rope. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he had serpentined through Germany for eleven days, finally crossed into Switzerland. Unpublished reports at the time said that his escape and his anti-Nazi fervor were known to the British, who sent a plane to Switzerland for him, but that before it arrived he fled Switzerland for Vichy to escape Nazi pursuers. Vichy was afraid to turn him over to Germany...
...Swiss people sent their editors hundreds of letters of agreement. The Swiss League of Students voted approval. Stockholm's press applauded and Ankara's Yenisabah spunkily wrote: "The threats directed at Switzerland provide a foretaste of what the world can expect if Germany wins...
Died. Max Oser, 65, Swiss riding master whose marriage to Mathilde McCormick hit the nation's front pages in 1923; of heart disease; in Gland, Switzerland. His bride-to-be, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, daughter of Harold (harvesters) McCormick, was 16 when she announced they would marry; Oser was 44; he was suspected as a fortune hunter, and mother-in-law Edith withheld her blessing for six years after the marriage. The Osers and their two children, new 17 and 15, lived quietly in Switzerland rarely visited...