Word: switzerland
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Only three countries in Western Europe will be temporarily safe; Spain, Switzerland, and Italy. Of these, the last is the least feasible as a point of repair, since the Communist Party inside the country is both the largest in Europe and the most active. Still, Italy is a much better prospect than either Germany or France. With Yugoslavia to act as a buffer. It is unlikely that the Russians will turn their attention to Italy before they have conquered Germany and France...
...fate of the great tin mines, 72% foreign-controlled (in the U.S., Chile, Switzerland) and source of 80% of Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition...
Died. Sir Stafford ("Old Austerity") Cripps, Britain's vegetarian, Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer (until October 1950) under former Prime Minister Clement Attlee; after long illness, three days before his 63rd birthday; in Zurich, Switzerland (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Uruguay's executive department has just undergone a constitution change modeled after Switzerland's executive department. As of March 1, 1952, a National Council of nine members, known as the "Ejecutive Colegiado," took control of the executive duties of the nation...
Dealer in Dead Souls. For twelve years Gogol traveled restlessly about the Continent, from Germany to France, to Italy, to Switzerland, to France again, and always back to Rome-his favorite city. ("Europe exists in order to watch," he said, "and Italy in order to live.") All the while, Gogol worked at his novel, Dead Souls, also based on one of Pushkin's ideas. In 1842 it was published and, as the Journalist-Historian Alexander Herzen records, "shook the whole of Russia...