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...alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than 1,500. There are no jails. Three green-suited...
...work have appeared in the Catholic Times in England, the Catholic World in the U. S. L'Osser- vatore Romano, semi-official newsorgan of the Holy See, once ran a letter guardedly praising Buchmanite aims. One of the prettiest Buchmanites extant, Baroness Connie de Hahn of Budapest, used to say at European meetings: "I was brought up a Roman Catholic, and being changed has made me a much better Roman Catholic." Last week, however, a potent Catholic prelate, Arthur Cardinal Kinsley, Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England, wrote his clergy informing them that no Catholic might join...
...Sept. 21-0ct. 6; 3) women will continue to take part in Olympic games, despite objections that some women athletes have in the past quite suddenly and surprisingly become men after the games; 4) bids for the 1944 games had been made by London, Helsingfors, Athens, Budapest, Lausanne, but not, as expected, by Rome (Italy had agreed to Japan's having the 1940 games only because the 1940th year of Christianity is also the 2600th year of the Empire of the Rising...
...Dorothy Thompson with much of their Hitler-baiting background, thought it best for his health to flee Austria. Acme's Photographer Ernest Kleinberg, a Polish Jew, was taken into "protective custody." By week's end transfer of several foreign news service bureaus to suppression-free Prague, Budapest and other Central European capitals was under...
Frau Dollfuss, the widow of the murdered Chancellor, while loyal French friends kept saying she had escaped northward to Czechoslovakia under the personal escort of the French Minister, actually escaped southward to Hungary, reached Budapest in safety...