Word: rappard
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Died. William E. Rappard, 75, economist, Manhattan-born founder and director (until 1955) of the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland's observer at the Paris Peace Conference, who was instrumental in bringing the League of Nations to Geneva, became first director of the League's Mandates Section; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Geneva...
According to Geneva's famed political scientist, Professor William Rappard, the explanation is social. Says he: "Switzerland is governed by its dominant lower middle class. It is neither an aristocratic nor a proletarian country. Now all history and all geography show that woman comes to her political rights in the drawing room and the workshop long before she does so in the kitchen." A Swiss gas-station owner in Rolle had a more personal explanation: "I have to talk to my wife too much anyway. If she had politics to talk about, I'd never...