Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because Russia obstinately refuses to attend a conference on Swiss soil (TIME, Feb. l),with the deliberate intention of thwarting the League, which of course maintains its large and immovable permanent equipment at Geneva.* 3) Because France and England do not want Germany to sit in at such a conference until she is within the League and has fully complied with the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles...
Wearily League supporters accused M. Tchitcherin of "continuing to pretend that Soviet nationals are not safe in Switzerland because many Swiss are anti-Communists." At present the Swiss Government is attempting to patch up its strained relations with the U. S. S. R., and not succeeding very well because M. Tchitcherin prefers to insist that the League go to enormous expense to hold its conferences elsewhere than at Geneva, where its extensive immovable equipment is located...
...Berne scholars are translating into Turkish 1,800 articles culled from the Swiss Civil Code. At Berlin 700 articles of the German Commercial Code are being similarly translated. At Rome 700 excerpts from the Italian Penal Code are passing into curlicues unintelligible to most Occidentals...
...James Bradbury Jr., the talented Swiss comedian, was being sobered up off stage, and Mme. Dorothy Hall as stenographer Joan Thayer rested her head against the shoulder of her millionaire husband, impersonated by Mr. John Warner, and cooed...
...secretary of the N. Y. archdiocese, and Father J. Francis A. McIntyre, assistant chancellor and also actuary of the matrimonial court of that archdiocese. These the Cardinal was obliged to leave outside as he proceeded to the Pope's library, a promenade interrupted by the greeting of the Swiss Guards and the gendarmes at the Vatican entrance, in the Court of St. Damascus, and in Clementine Hall. In the library the Cardinal started to fall on his knees at the Pope's feet to kiss the pontifical ring, but this the Pope prevented, embracing the Cardinal in fatherly...