Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zurich, Switzerland...
Anthony Eden dutifully introduced his boss's "parley at the summit" proposal, but far from agreeing to meet with Malenkov in Moscow, the ministers settled only on a new attempt to get Molotov to Switzerland. In separate but identical notes to Russia, they brushed aside Russia's wordily evasive request for a conference of the Big Four and Red China, and suggested again that Molotov sit down with the Big Three Foreign Ministers to discuss a final peace settlement for Germany and Austria. Time and place: Nov. 9, in Lugano. They were all agreed that Russia is afraid...
Young Indian chairman: We are representatives of five neutral nations-Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and India. These explainers will talk to you and ask you certain questions. You need not answer questions which you feel might be used to coerce...
...persecuted against the persecutors, as Ignazio Silone saw them. In his 20s he was a Communist, hopping back & forth between Stalin's Moscow and the underground in Mussolini's Italy. By his 303 he had seen enough of both totalitarianisms; he settled down in free Switzerland, wrote his famed novels of the Italian peasantry, Fontamara and Bread and Wine. After World War II, he went home to Italy, won a following in Italian politics as an anti-Communist Socialist. A Handful of Blackberries is his first novel to appear in the U.S. in more than a decade. Novelist...
...industrialists who built Hitler's Luftwaffe have kept a prudent silence. Beset by denazification tribunals, forbidden by the occupation to make plans, the aircraft manufacturers switched their lines to make a living: Messerschmitt turned to midget automobiles; Dornier fell back upon his construction interests in Spain and Switzerland; Heinkel put out machine tools and motor scooters from his Stuttgart factory. Two months ago, they formed an "Aero Union" to handle orders that might be coming from NATO, but thanks to the ban, and to French and British opposition to German rearmament, no orders came...