Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several weeks the world press had carried rumors of another Axis peace offensive. The De Gaullist Independent French News Agency stated flatly that Germany had made peace overtures to Britain through Turkey, Switzerland and Sweden, and released a purported "Göring memorandum." This document offered: 1) recognition of the British Empire; 2) U.S. control of Latin America; 3) trade collaboration between the German, British and U.S. Empires in return for: 1) German control of Europe; 2) such Russian territory as was needed for Lebensraum; 3) the colonies of France, The Netherlands and Belgium. London denied receiving any offers...
...himself down on the rope. It was too short. He (a 63-year-old) climbed up again, wove some more, later let himself down again all 60 feet to the moat. Posing as a Swiss traveling salesman, he spent eleven days on obscure roads and railroads leading to Switzerland, Occupied France and Vichy. His closest call came when the Gestapo searched a train on which he was talking with a German officer. He got the German into such a hot argument that the Gestapo did not wish to interrupt the officer with inquiries...
Letters to prisoners of war will be handled postage-free. They should list, after the recipient's name, his military title and branch of service, "formerly of" (Shanghai, Manila, Wake, Guam, etc.), and the identifying phrase: "American Prisoner in Japan, c/o International Red Cross Committee, Geneva, Switzerland." In the space for postage stamps should be written, "Prisoner of War Mail, Postage Free." Similar procedure is followed with mail for interned civilians but, pending appropriate regulations, full postage will be required...
Already in their mercy work abroad American Quakers have fed 84,000 children and 6,000 prisoners, largely with milk obtained in Switzerland, and vegetables shipped from North Africa...
...picked the hard way. Orchestral players are kept together, after a few rehearsals, by the conductor's beat; quartet players keep together by the kind of intuition that good bridge partners have, developed through countless hours of playing together. When Violinist Busch formed his Chamber Music Players in Switzerland in 1935, he took his own Busch String Quartet as a nucleus, held 70 rehearsals before the orchestra's debut concert. When he reassembled the group in the U.S. last May (with a few changes in personnel), he persuaded the musicians to rehearse for ten months...