VISITORS TO SWITZERLAND —Switzerland, usually the mecca of the world’s richest and most influential of society, especially during the winter sports season, is now almost devoid of visitors thanks to the war—but there are at least two world-famous people there, namely, the Begum Aga Khan and her son, Prince Sadrudin, who are enjoying winter sports as usual. His Highness the Aga Khan, as ruler of the Moslems, will in 1945, on the occasion of his jubilee, receive the equivalent of his own weight in diamonds, which is estimated to be worth over five million pounds sterling.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21441, 7 June 1941, Page 10
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96VISITORS TO SWITZERLAND—Switzerland, usually the mecca of the world’s richest and most influential of society, especially during the winter sports season, is now almost devoid of visitors thanks to the war—but there are at least two world-famous people there, namely, the Begum Aga Khan and her son, Prince Sadrudin, who are enjoying winter sports as usual. His Highness the Aga Khan, as ruler of the Moslems, will in 1945, on the occasion of his jubilee, receive the equivalent of his own weight in diamonds, which is estimated to be worth over five million pounds sterling. Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21441, 7 June 1941, Page 10
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