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Died. Marcel Pilet-Golaz, 68, twice (1934, 1940) President of Switzerland, dapper "Anthony Eden of Swiss politics," who resigned as Foreign Minister in 1944 because of criticism for his handling of Soviet relations; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Russia's ramifying political influence, which caused the resignation of Iran's Premier Said last week, also forced out the Foreign Minister and President-elect of Switzerland - Marcel Pilet-Golaz...
...fortnight ago, dapper little Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who dresses like Anthony Eden, asked Russia to forget and forgive...
Foreign Minister Pilet-Golaz soon resigned. Said the Basel National Zeitung, organ of his own Radical Democratic Party: "Why have we been so slow? . . ." Said the socialist Berner Tagwacht: "Let . . . the Soviet Union not forget that it was Switzerland that sheltered Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries until...
Dapper little Swiss President Marcel Pilet-Golaz, who dresses like Anthony Eden, gave audience on Sept. 10 to leaders of the Swiss Nationalist (Nazi) Movement. His office said afterward that the Nationalists assured the President they were not acting and would not act in concert with any foreign power-i.e., Nazi Germany. Nonetheless, democratic Swiss resentment boiled last week and parties representing 126 out of the 187 seats in the Swiss National Council issued a statement publicly regretting that the President had received the Nationalists. Many Swiss smelled "appeasement" by President Pilet-Golaz, the more so because Adolf Hitler...