Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rebound in the South. On the Crimean peninsula, both sides agreed that the Germans had strongly counterattacked at points southeast of Simferopol. New York Timesman Daniel T. Brigham, covering the Russian war from censor-free Switzerland, declared: "The mere fact that the Germans in that sector are in a position to counterattack at all is taken to indicate that their situation in Simferopol cannot be considered as desperate as it was first thought to be. . . ." Capping the week was a German High Command claim of recapture of Feodosiya, on the Black Sea coast, one of the first Crimean points reclaimed...
...Quakers have started daily supplementary feeding of 84,000 school children in Unoccupied France. They now have food stocks in France sufficient to continue the rations for 20 weeks, hope also to get permission to buy 200 tons of milk now available in Switzerland so they can give a half-liter of milk daily to 10,000 French babies who may very well starve this winter without...
...carried economic warfare direct to Europe last week, barred from further trade with the U.S. 1,800 Axis-owned or dominated firms and individuals in Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey...
...haired Dutchman Mengelberg has lately conducted all over Germany. Only other internationally known musicians who have been playing in Germany are Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Walter Gieseking. Hulking, butler-like Gieseking has roused suspicions that he is pro-Nazi by the freedom with which he moves from Germany to Switzerland...
...MacArthur retired from the U.S. Army. To the Philippine Commonwealth he had promised that by 1946 he would make of the islands a Pacific Switzerland that would cost any invader 500,000 men, three years and more than $5,000,000,000 to conquer...