Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present cultural units should be preserved with the utmost care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change. If some country, such as Belgium, is troubled by friction between two sections with different cultural systems, each of these, if it so desires, should be given autonomy. The decision should rest with the individual cultural groups. Autonomy . . . does not mean complete independence. The day for completely independent small political units...
Once Adolf Hitler was believed leary of onetime Midshipman Juan of the British navy. But Juan jilted his English sweetheart to marry, in Rome in 1935, his Bourbon-Sicily cousin, Princess Maria Mercedes. There he lived under the fascist wing until World War II sent him discreetly to Switzerland...
...Only in Switzerland, in freedom's land, has Flagstad sung. There, fortnight ago, at Zurich, she sang in three operas. One was Beethoven's Fidelio, in which the heroine flourishes her pistol at a tyrant...
...reporters Kirsten Flagstad said little, but that little was as eloquent as her tremendous voice. Asked how it felt to be in free Switzerland, she replied in broken German: "We just walk around and look and look. Oh, everything is so marvelous and beautiful, like a fairy tale...
...liner as it docked, held all passengers for intensive grilling. Passengers complained noisily, and friends on shore joined in. But the grilling broke down "Refugee" Bahr: he admitted that he had been sent to the U.S. as a spy. He had invisible ink with him, and addresses in Switzerland, Spain and South America to which he was to send information. He had memorized a story to explain the $7,000 in his pockets: a Jewish woman, whose husband had been beheaded, had sold his stamp collection, had given Bahr the money to take...