Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taken to Paris, Charles Hartmann was told that he had gone to the U. S. in 1914 to spread German propaganda, that he had returned through England in 1915, that he had then busied himself in the German espionage service in Switzerland. In 1919 France had condemned Charles Hartmann to death by a firing squad, in absentia...
Philip Jessup, Columbia University Professor. Switzerland...
George Woodward Wickersham. France, Sweden, Switzerland...
...Rifle team: the world's championship in the international matches at Antwerp with 5,441 points, just one point short of the Swiss team world's record made in 1929. Switzerland was second, Finland third...
...Great St. Bernard pass leading from Martigny, Switzerland to Aosta, Italy has been known and used since prehistoric times. Dangerous always, snow usually covers it to a depth of seven or eight feet, sometimes 40 ft. In 962 Bernard (923-1008), a priest, seeing that many pilgrims used the pass on their way to Rome, founded a hospice on the highest point, 8000 ft., decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit...