Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peaceful settlement of disputes by arbitration and by conciliation, to the reduction and limitation of armaments, by agreement among nations, and to a solemn pledge not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. I have been fortunate enough in my assignments as Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland and as Chief of the Western European Division in Washington to have had some part both in the efforts for general disarmament its contemplated by the Preparatory Commission of the League of Nations, and in the specific naval disarmament question confined to Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and the United...
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First, he will raid the £33,000,000 "dollar exchange" credit maintained by the Exchequer in Manhattan. Twenty million pounds will go to balance the Budget, the remaining £13,000,000 will be transferred into Great Britain's account with the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland...
...exists, little demand is seen for the process of hydrogenation in which powdered coal is converted into oil. But last week it was evident that the great international hydrogenation patent pool is still active. The little town of Vaduz in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein (between Austria and Switzerland) was named as the home of a new company called International Hydrogenation Patents Co. which will develop the process outside of the U. S. and Germany. Another company to exchange patents will soon be formed in The Hague. Linked together by these deals are Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...Author. A citizen more of Europe than of France, Remain Rolland was one of the few top-flight intellectuals who not only tried to prevent the late Great War but refused to succumb to it. The result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept...