Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved along the highway the President could see wide fields of sugar cane, with tobacco on higher ground and coffee cultivation on the uplands of the red clay mountains which caused the elder Roosevelt on his 1906 visit to call the island the "Switzerland of America...
...would not hold that balance of power which it now holds in Austria. There is bad blood between Dr. Schober and Monsignor Seipel. It was not by accident that the Foreign Minister waited to spring his surprise until the Monsignor, ailing with pleurisy and dia betes, had gone to Switzerland...
...alarm with which the Austrian Roman Catholics are regarding their probable subordination to the overwhelming number of Protestants in Germany. In Austria the Catholics form a large majority, while in Germany it is just the other way around. Monsignor Seipel is said to have hurried back from Switzerland to Vienna and declared that his followers will support the union only provided it is approved by those nations having most-favored-nation trade treaties with Austria. This innocent looking provision may make a troublesome stumbling-block to the ultimate acceptance and adoption of the customs agreement...
...Switzerland...
...Soundings Tomlinson writes on: skiing in Switzerland, a launch trip in the Malay Archipelago, Sea-Dog Frobisher and contemporary worthies, an overnight voyage in a wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...