by Larry Loftis
safe houses and escape lines between France and, 37, 56, 104, 110, 132, 136, 185
Toledo, 112–14
spies, xiii–xiv
Spies, Adrian, 137, 138
Stalin, Joseph, 243, 266
Starry Night, The (van Gogh), 112n
State Department, 13, 32, 35, 65, 65n, 140, 155, 170, 172–73, 188, 287n OSS and, 173
Steinbeck, John, 131, 258
Stephenson, William, 187n, 189, 192, 242–43, 266, 322n
Stettinius, Edward, 189, 193, 266
Stief, Hellmuth, 92n
Stork Club, 34
Stülpnagel, Karl-Heinrich von, 89, 91n, 92n
Sturm Abeilung (SA), 87, 88
Suárez, Nacho, 137–38
Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, 89, 90
Sueca, Duchess of, 75, 76
Switzerland, 205
T
Taylor, Elizabeth, 249
Teatro de la Zarzuela, 47, 50
Thiele, Fritz, 92n
Thomas, H. Gregory, xi, xvi, 37, 55n, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 64, 72, 78, 80, 81, 83–86, 116–17, 132, 145–47, 149, 150–51, 154–55, 156–59, 163, 165, 167–69, 184, 185, 265, 302n, 315n death of, 265
Thome, SS, 70
Thuengen, Karl von, 92n
Time, 49
Toledo, 112–14
Tomlinson, Mr., 8–9, 274n
Torlonia, Prince and Princess of, 233
Torrejón, Mimosa, 99
Toulouse, 104
Tresckow, Henning von, 92n
Truman, Harry, 173, 181, 184, 218, 266
Turpin, Robert, 56–57
U
US Forces in Europe, 243
V
Vanderbilt, William, 277n
van Gogh, Vincent, 112n
Vanity Fair, 248
Vascones, 207
Velázquez, Diego, 73
Versailles Peace Conference, 32
Victoria Eugenia, Queen, 55
View of Toledo (El Greco), 112n
Villa Rosa, 180
Vogue, 200
W
Wagner, Eduard, 92n
Waldorf-Astoria, 39
Wallace, Henry A., 13
Walt Disney Company, 12, 27, 66, 70–72, 71, 79–80, 155, 171, 192, 262–63, 284n, 302n
Warner, Jack, 244, 245
Wehrmacht, 45, 60, 87, 87n, 88, 91n Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), 88, 91n
West, Nigel, xv–xvi
Wilson, Woodrow, 32
Windsor, Duchess of, 244, 245, 248, 252–53
Windsor, Duke of, 123, 244, 248, 253
Witzleben, Erwin von, 88, 89, 92n
wolframite, 25, 45
WonderBar, 42, 43
World Commerce Corporation, 194, 222, 225, 233, 240–41, 241, 242–43, 248, 254, 266, 322n
World War I, 32
World War II, 6, 7 Aline’s desire for involvement in, 8, 32–33, 184
end of, in Europe, 169, 173, 174
Normandy landing, 79, 145
Pearl Harbor attack, 6
Y
Yankee Clipper, 36–39, 38, 70n, 192, 199
Yebes, Count and Countess of, 75, 99
Z
Zurich, 203–4, 206, 208, 213
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