Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tackling troubles at their root. In World War I this philosophy led them to start rebuilding ruined French villages even before the Armistice. Afterwards they fed starving children, stopped epidemics, restocked whole provinces with farm tools, seeds and livestock, left permanent centres for "international good will" in Berlin, Vienna, Geneva, Paris. Between wars they built schools in Mexico, helped Okies and jobless coal miners, ran hostels for refugees. Now they are busy once more in war-torn Europe. Last week Marshal Pétain received Quaker Howard Kershner at Vichy, expressed "profound gratitude" for the work Quakers have done...
...Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands all the way to Petsamo in Finland, two other air fleets based on Vienna and Rumania, and an independent unit in Italy...
...spinning to music shocked U. S. skaters; they would have none of it. So Haines went to Europe on an exhibition tour. He found London cool, Stockholm warm. When he reached Vienna, the city went wild. Haines taught the Viennese to waltz on ice. They formed the Vienna School of Skating, founded the International Style, now universally used by figure skaters. Haines never returned to the U. S., never lived to see his rhythmic technique accepted by his native land. He died in 1879, while traveling from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, was buried in the little Finnish village of Gamla...
...France, So Ends Our Night is a story of the sad flight of the democrats from one brief sanctuary to another as Hitlerism rolled across Europe. When Josef Steiner (Fredric March), a former officer in the German Army, meets young Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford), they are under arrest in Vienna, about to be put over the border into Czecho-Slovakia. Without passports, they have no civil rights, can be deported at any time. Without labor permits, they cannot legally earn a living...
...Back in Vienna, Steiner buys a false passport, gets jobs for Kern and himself in the Prater, Vienna's famed amusement park. Ruth finds a job in a hospital. Then Hitler marches into Austria, and they light out once more. United again in Paris, Kern and Steiner work for awhile in a construction gang, Ruth in a laboratory. In France, too, there are restrictions against aliens. Ruth finds a way to evade them for herself and Kern. But Steiner, when he hears his wife is dying, goes back to her, to Germany, and to death...