Word: liechtensteins
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...government of Liechtenstein sent appeals to its neighbors, Switzerland and Austria, for help. Both states sent troops and military engineer's to aid in the rescue work...
...feet as the upper reaches of the Rhine poured in its roaring torrent of muddy water. Higher and higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...
...Soon Liechtenstein's 65 square miles of territory were converted into one gigantic bog, tops of houses and church spires, with an occasional oasis of high ground, lifting above the sea of mud. Frantic peasants drove their cattle as best they could toward the high mounds of land; boatmen plied their oars with aching muscles as they ferried women and children from their submerged houses to those still standing above the flood. Many people were forced to spend two days on their house tops...
...quarters of a century ago the itinerant American could spend a summer wandering from tiny principality to tinier duchy, in the district made famous in literature by the late Miss Yonge, and could cross, during his peregrinations, at least half a dozen boundary lines. Such places as Sagan and Liechtenstein were not names, but independencies, each with its own little ruler, here a duke and there a baron, and its own code of customs...
...Prince Helie de Sagan, Duke de Talleyrand-Perigord, having become sensitive, no doubt, to the weight of his increasing years and the accumulations of his unpaid estate taxes, offered for sale his entire holdings to the highest bidder; and now comes the news that the good citizens of Liechtenstein, upon the death of Prince Yohann, which is hourly expected, will give up their autonomy and amalgamate with Switzerland. Somehow the course of empire must be stayed. Whatever other rulers do the house of Monaco must realize that, although personally it may care nothing for freedom, it has a magnificent foreign...