Word: motta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upheaval. At Geneva last week the Delegate of Switzerland, her one-time President Giuseppe Motta, inserted a small but fateful wad of gum into the League machinery by making clear that Switzerland, no matter what engagements she assumes or has assumed as a member of the League, will preserve as paramount to her safety "the historic principle of Swiss neutrality." This was a high-flown way of saying that bantamweight Switzerland must and will let middleweight Italy buy from or across her whatever Dictator Mussolini imperatively demands...
...disorderly Nazi practice of sending German spies abroad to kidnap or murder Germans who have "opposed Hitler" (TIME, Feb. 4). The case of Berthold Jacob seemed to Swiss one kidnapping too many, and last week spunky little Switzerland made it a cause celebre. Thundered Swiss Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta: "The Jacob affair constitutes a serious violation of Swiss sovereignty capable of shaking the destiny of Switzerland...
...last minute burst of Swiss indignation against the Soviet Union, Swiss Chief Delegate Dr. Giuseppe Motta rehearsed how in 1918 Bolsheviks sacked the Swiss legation in Petrograd and recalled that Lenin once defined the League of Nations as "an institution of brigandage." In a fiery peroration Dr. Motta drew chaos from the gallery and handclaps from a few delegates by branding the Soviet Union as the universal betrayer of religion. "Their churches in Russia are abandoned and fall in ruins," cried Dr. Motta. ". . . Communism dissolves the family; it suppresses individual initiative; it abolishes private property. Russia is afflicted with...
...Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria came roaring over the Alps in an airplane and started a similar round of visits on his own. Hurrying to Rome to see what it was all about came Istvan Antal, press chief of Hungary and special representative of Premier Gombos, Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta of Switzerland and the Polish Minister to Berlin, Dr. Alfred Wysocki. Also in Rome, though only an unnoticed bystander, was that exuberant British Fascist, 'Sir Oswald Mosley, who put in his word: "Fascism can and will win England...
First act last week of Switzerland's newly-elected President Giuseppe Motta (born near the Italian frontier, three times previously elected president-1915, 1920 & 1927) was to draw attention to a little- noticed clause in the new Swiss Military Penal Code making it a crime for Swiss to enlist without the Government's authorization under a foreign flag. As late as the 18th Century Spain, France and the Pope hired Swiss mercenaries. Pope Pius XI still has a Swiss Guard.† Whether they, in serving under the Papal flag, are now criminals under Swiss law did not appear...