Word: tyrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time Bemelmans pops the cork in a village of the Tyrol, where he spent part of his boyhood. Out comes a bubbling mixture of beautiful spies who refuse to be seduced, mountaineers who outwit pockmarked Nazis, and emigrant sons who write home from America: "Chopping wood one day recently, I cut off my left thumb and the cat got it ... and ate it. I am now forced to stay idle. Send me some money...
...beautiful wife were happily packing their bags last week in their lakeside villa at Pregny, Switzerland, where they have been whiling away their long exile. They were in hopeful spirits. General Emile Bethouart, French High Commissioner in Austria, had invited them for a week of hunting in the Tyrol. After that, there was a chance that they might go on to Brussels. A decision on the King's future was finally at hand...
Belgium's sharpened political temper interfered with Leopold's vacation plans. When Premier Eyskens got word of the proposed Tyrol trip, he snapped to the King's secretary in Brussels: "Tell His Majesty that he must forget the invitation. Belgian public opinion has a disagreeable remembrance of Leopold's visits to Austria during the German occupation...
...average Austrian," says Bemelmans, "is like the cocker spaniel, helplessly affectionate and sentimental." Bemelmans himself has been a U.S. citizen since he was a young man, but his native affectionateness and sentimentality (he was raised in the Tyrol) still run like a groundswell under his clear prose and brilliantly childlike paintings and drawings. No man can be more superficial than he when commenting on the causes of contemporary misery ("If politicians can clean up the messes they have made and are making, then Paris will be the old place again"), but it is precisely this relaxed laziness of thought that...
...looked strangely familiar. Probably, said the National Gallery experts last week, Illustrator John Tenniel had used it as the model for the Duchess in Alice. Flemish Master Quentin Matsys (1466-1530), who had painted the original, had intended it as a caricature of Margaret (nicknamed "Pocket-mouth"), Countess of Tyrol. About the only change Tenniel made, agreed the London News Chronicle, was to add "ermine to the headdress and sausage curls to the forehead." Otherwise little was otherwise...