Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four weeks after Henri Honore Giraud, Army General, turned up in Switzerland, crossed into Vichyfrance and told of his daring escape from a Nazi prison, some questions were still unanswered...
Unofficial reports, he said, such as those emanating from Stockholm, Sweden or Berne, Switzerland, are usually dictated by wishful thinking and are thus often unreliable. Von Hartz believes that the American people can take all the bad news that the newspapers dish...
...world last week (from the Vatican State to Italy to Switzerland) leaked a report which Cardinal von Faulhaber recently sent Pope Pius XII. The Nazis' systematic war against Christianity, said the Cardinal, has contributed to Germany's present "spiritual unrest," to "manifestations against the regime" which the authorities call "machinations of Foreign Judeo-Communistic elements...
Died. Paul Felix Weingartner, 78, famed German musical conductor; in Winterthur, Switzerland. No longer widely known in the U.S., he was nonetheless one of the world's greatest. He was conductor of the Berlin Symphony (before World War I), the Vienna Opera from 1908 to 1927, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony. He taught at the famed Conservatory in Basle, directed the Vienna State Opera in 1935 and 1936. Later he chose exile in preference to Anschluss...
...still unsolved. It was said that he was at liberty in Vichy, had refused to parole himself, but had sworn allegiance to Marshal Pétain and promised not to join the Free French forces. At week's end came another rumor: General Giraud had been arrested in Switzerland for traveling with false papers...