Word: tyroler
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...beautiful wife were happily packing their bags last week in their lakeside villa at Pregny, Switzerland, where they have been whiling away their long exile. They were in hopeful spirits. General Emile Bethouart, French High Commissioner in Austria, had invited them for a week of hunting in the Tyrol. After that, there was a chance that they might go on to Brussels. A decision on the King's future was finally at hand...
...average Austrian," says Bemelmans, "is like the cocker spaniel, helplessly affectionate and sentimental." Bemelmans himself has been a U.S. citizen since he was a young man, but his native affectionateness and sentimentality (he was raised in the Tyrol) still run like a groundswell under his clear prose and brilliantly childlike paintings and drawings. No man can be more superficial than he when commenting on the causes of contemporary misery ("If politicians can clean up the messes they have made and are making, then Paris will be the old place again"), but it is precisely this relaxed laziness of thought that...
...looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...
...lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said the agent...
Gruber, who is his country's Foreign Minister and was a leader of the resistance movement during the war, has recently achieved prominence by his handling of the Southern Tyrol hand-over in the Paris Peace Conference. He is now in the U. S. to seek Austrian admission to UN membership, a move which has been seconded by Secretary Byrnes...