Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumanians are disgruntled over the loss of 300,000 men in the Russian campaign. Pro-Allied feeling is mounting. Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu is openly hostile to the Antonescu regime. There are reports that ex-Foreign Minister Grigore Gafencu has gone to Switzerland to form a Government to take over if Rumania is knocked...
Although a citizen of the Netherlands, de Jonge came here from Switzerland, where his father directed a sanatorium for mental diseases. Previous to his enrollment here, the young Dutchman had built a planetarium of his own in Switzerland, and he selected Harvard because of the excellent facilities offered by the University Observatory...
...returned to his family in Switzerland during the summer vacations, and last year his father and brother came to the United States to join him here. A resident of Winthrop House, de Jonge was president of the Cercle Francais, and he participated in many activities carried on by that organization. On the occasions when he took time off from his star-gazing activities, cycling and skiing proved his favorite diversions...
...troops stumbled when they tried to goose-step. "It doesn't much matter," said Mussolini. But not long after, periods of depression engulfed him. By last week he was surly, as likely to fly into tantrums as he was when Angelica Balabanoff found him sleeping under bridges in Switzerland; when Rachele Guidi shuddered as he spat at priests. A mockery of the man he might have been, Mussolini could well turn to reading the ancients. In the quiet of his study he might still forget the gnawing present in reading Virgil's silver lines...
Died. Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, 50, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas II of Russia; of tuberculosis; in Davos, Switzerland. Handsome Dmitri in 1916 helped Prince Felix Youssoupov with the patriotic liquidation (poison, many shots) of "Mad Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John...