Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven men making the trip are: Hans Fuhrer, Swiss guide; David Moberley, and Kenneth Saladana, both packers; Donald Hoover, cook; John de Laitire '29, W. R. MacLaurin '29, and A. J. Ostheimer...
...reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to League Conferences...
...four years earnest attempts have been made to relieve the stress of this situation, a stress inimical to the peace of the world. The Swiss have offered to sign a note apologizing "sincerely." The Russians have held out for "emphatically...
...Moscow, last week, "emphatically" was inserted in a Russo-Swiss protocol resuming diplomatic relations between these countries...
...private library, he goes into long conference with Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, his secretary of state. Outside the room the Guardia Nobile, the Swiss Guard and a host of pontifical gendarmes move about in symbolical protection of His Holiness. When Cardinal Gasparri leaves, other papal officials enter for conference and instruction. Next come private audiences to royal persons, presidents and many another great one; then audiences to groups of half a dozen to two score persons who in unison receive the Pope's blanket blessings. This part of the day's work ends...