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Frau Hermann Goring arrived in Basel, Switzerland on what was described as a little shopping trip. She presently moved into a castle on Lake Constance...
Thus complains the Metropolitan Museum's scholarly Curator of Prints William M. Ivins Jr., writing of one of the most nobly illustrated volumes in the world. The book is Andreas Vesalius' The Fabric of the Human Body, printed in Basel just 400 years ago. This work visualized for the first time in history the true structure of the human form and was called by the late, great Sir William Osier "the greatest medical book ever written-from which modern medicine starts." For its woodcut pictures, the volume is of similar luster to artists and connoisseurs...
...Believe-It-or-Notable character is Thomas Harrington McKittrick, 54, of Milton, Mass. and Basel, Switzerland. Though he is a U.S. citizen, and his country is at war, he is a neutral in office hours. For he is the President of the Bank for International Settlements...
Next week he will probably arise in the empty board room of the bank's five-story building in the old Swiss city of Basel and, as he has three times before, go through the motions of presenting and accepting the annual report. He will have been authorized to do so by proxies of the bank's 17 directors, 13 of whom are controlled by the Axis powers, and one of whom is Walther Funk himself (Reich Minister of Economics...
...German masses are not wholly in the dark: they often listen to foreign broadcasts and they have learned to read between the lines of their communiques. When the German press reported that somebody had unsuccessfully tried to explode the Rhine bridge to Basel in northwest Switzerland, Rhinelanders cracked: "It must be the Russian Partisans trying to cut off the Wehrmacht's retreat...