Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that has just concluded was not fought to prosecute the biggest criminal alone, but also his henchmen, accomplices and concealers. Using the words of a secret report . . . [at] the Congress of Vienna: 'Let us not forgive in the person of Murat the crimes we have punished in the person of Bonaparte...
...Oldtime Vienna correspondents knew sharp-featured George Eric Rowe Gedye (rhymes with steady) as a cool little Englishman, always reserved and distantly polite, who could write with startling passion of his love (Austria) and his hate (the Nazis). Last week they caught the Gedye touch in London Daily Herald pieces pleading that unless the Allies acted, Vienna would starve within 30 days...
...Middle East "collecting confidential information," ostensibly for the British Ministry of Information. It had been better than his World War I service as an intelligence officer ("Nothing secret about it! Just questioning prisoners!"). It had almost satisfied his romantic dreams of 1925, when, as a new correspondent in Vienna, he had stood in awe before the Chancellery on the Ballhaus Platz, where Metternich had planned his tricks. "The very address," he wrote later with characteristic Gedye gusto, "was an echo of the spy thrillers by William Le Queux, who had filled my boyhood with the romance of international intrigue...
...Vienna correspondent, Gedye was a lone wolf. He steered clear of the Cafe Louvre, where such mutually admiring members of the Anglo-American press club as Marcel Fodor. John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson talked away the days over Kaffee mit Schlagobers, and pooled their findings. He drifted around the country, wrote excellent travel and history books on Austria...
...over 38 books (The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Embezzled Heaven, The Song of Bernadette and the yet-unpublished Star of the Unborn), playwright (Jacobowsky and the Colonel), refugee U.S. resident since 1940; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. Werfel, whose Forty Days was burned by the Nazis, fled Vienna and Paris two jumps ahead of Hitler's hordes, took refuge in Lourdes, France, where he heard of the vision of the little French Catholic girl, Bernadette Soubirous, and vowed to sing "her song" if he ever escaped. It became his biggest hit, as a movie won five Academy...