Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and India. South Korea objects to India, charges that India will side with the Red "neutrals...
...changed his name and fled to Switzerland. There, he got a job as chaplain of an Anglican church in Lausanne. When police caught up with him, he fled again, was finally caught in the mountain resort of Riffelberg masquerading as a Mr. Humphreys. Expelled from Switzerland as an undesirable alien, he was eventually found in Ceylon, boarding with a bishop and teaching at the Colombo Divinity School. Next stops: Singapore, Australia, Canada and finally the U.S. In 1950, he went back to Canada, but recrossed the border and took up illegal residence. Meanwhile, armed with faked credentials, he had done...
...under the supervision of a five-nation "repatriation commission," until their "apprehensions" are "eliminated." Originally, the Communists had insisted that the 48,000 balky prisoners be transported to a neutral nation, which the U.N. rejected as completely impractical. The five "neutral" nations proposed by the Reds: Poland. Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, India...
...week long the negotiators in the little wood-and-matting house at Panmunjom disputed over what is a neutral nation. Sweden or Switzerland would not do. said the Communists, and seemed to prefer an Asian nation. Fine, said the U.N.: how about Pakistan? The Communists promised to think about it. But above all this haggling, one point was rising clear: to reach an armistice, one side is going to have to surrender its fundamental position on prisoner repatriation...
...Because he cannot teach and conduct and still find time to compose music, Composer Paul Hindemith. 57, will leave Yale University. But for one more year he will continue to teach at the University of Zurich in Switzerland...