Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Switzerland through the great Mount Cenis tunnel, he comes upon a land where peace seems a foregone conclusion from the sheer stillness of its lakes and the immobile vastness of its mountains. There the Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
...indictment charged two Germans and two Swiss with conspiring and their companies with conspiring to defraud the Government, and added further that John T. King, former Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, received $50,000 for taking part in the conspiracy; that the late Jesse W. Smith (notorious from the Department of Justice and Veterans' Bureau investigations) received $25,000, and Col. Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, got $391,000 in Liberty bonds, for approving and securing completion of the plot. All these were indicted except John T. King, who it is said is needed as a witness...
...close. One evening Mrs. Austen Chamberlain and the wives of several of the other delegates signalized that the event was imminent by demurely planting themselves in chairs on the sidewalk before tha Palms de 'justice, where the conferees were in session. Crowded about them was a group of eager Swiss, bearing fireworks; the hamlet of which they were citizens was about to become immortal...
Pale, haggard, he sought the villa of Joseph Farinelli, his wealthy friend. His bodyguard, 20 strong, was swelled by a cordon of Swiss police desperately uneasy lest he be assassinated. Secretly he returned the official calls of his distinguished confréres, who were busy with the final details of the Pact. In these last-minute negotiations he took no part. With the fears and the aloofness of a Sultan he remained secluded until the hour when he must add his pen scratch to the others...
Seat of the Conference. Just north of the point where the Swiss frontier nips off a bit of Lago Maggiore, famed azure cradle of les Isles Borromees lies the little town of Lacarno, at what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...