Word: motta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Affairs: Dr. Giuseppe Motta...
...Milan, Italy, Paolo Motta and his bride, Teresina, retired on their wedding night. Water began to drip on Paolo's neck. He looked for the annoying source, could not find it, went damply muttering back to bed. Next night the same thing happened again. This time he traced the water to a hole in the ceiling. Paolo Motta rushed upstairs, broke into the room above, found one of his popular bride's disgruntled suitors standing over the hole with a pitcher of water...
...League system, however, convinced Switzerland that her position would be more secure if she returned to unconditional neutrality. Accordingly, two months ago the Government at Berne dispatched a note to League headquarters at Geneva renouncing Switzerland's remaining sanction obligations. Shortly thereafter, Swiss Foreign Minister Dr. Giuseppe Motta took pains to inform the German and Italian Governments of Switzerland's step. Last week, in notes issued simultaneously in Berlin and Rome, they made their acknowledgments...
...agreeable feature of Swiss politics is the absence of sordid competition. With clocklike regularity Swiss politicians succeed from office to office by uneventful stages. Last week Switzerland's official clock chimed the hour for 65-year-old Giuseppe Motta, Roman Catholic, ex-lawyer, father of ten, to be re-elected President of the Swiss Confederation ("President of Switzerland") for the fifth time. As head of the Swiss delegation to the League of Nations, onetime Foreign Secretary and onetime Finance Minister, Dr. Motta has drained the Swiss political...
Germany's Minister to Switzerland, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, on vacation, hurried to Berlin for a conference, then back to Berne to make loud protests. Swiss Vice President & Foreign Minister Giuseppe Motta had already sent an official letter of regret to Berlin, and the Swiss seemed cool to impassioned demands by Reichsführer Hitler's own newsorgan for the death sentence for the assassin. Maximum Swiss sentence for political murders is 15 years in jail. The canton of Grisons, where the crime was committed, long ago abolished the death penalty...