Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland last week furnished the first notable spy trial of World War II. A brunette dancer called Nina (real name: Virginia Capt Rota), arrested at the frontier as she sought to enter France last month, was found guilty of possessing Swiss anti-aircraft defense secrets. She was supposedly to deliver them by roundabout route to Italy. She was sentenced to five years in jail. With her were convicted Roger Joël, former draftsman in a Swiss arms plant; Paul Rochat, a Geneva detective, and Rochat's wife Dolly. In jail, Dancer Nina hunger-struck and tried suicide (wrist...
...French freight train chuffed calmly out of Mulhouse, across No Man's Land under the muzzles of Germany's guns, and up to Basel, Switzerland-first French train to arrive there since the end of August. Explained the engineer: "We had a lot of stuff consigned to Switzerland sitting in the freight station ... so I thought I might as well bring it along...
...French experts estimated the troops massed by Adolf Hitler from the North Sea to Switzerland as follows...
...Poland's prominent refugees were as fortunate as the gold: > Still waiting to be released from internment in Rumania was 72-year-old former President Ignacy Moscicki. He has applied for permission to go to Fribourg, Switzerland, where he was once a chemistry professor. The Rumanian Government would gladly have released the old President, but the German Government objected, and Rumania just now fears crossing Germany...
Thirteen years later he paid a visit to the U. S. When he found U. S. audiences could take his music or leave it alone, he went back to Europe for good, settled in Switzerland. As the years passed the U. S. public forgot all about him, musicians thought of him, when they did, as someone who had probably been dead a long time...