Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote that Finland had the "right to demand and expect sanctions" against Russia, but scornfully added: "The slave State of Ethiopia did not have that right, for it was guilty of 30 years' aggression against Italy as well as of the most brutal violations of civilized principles." †Switzerland has notified the League that meetings can be held on its territory only if the present war is not discussed...
...they be cracked in front. In psychological terms, the mention of "maneuvering" and "beyond the defensive phase" seemed to mean: "Germans, not only can you neither crack nor flank us, but we are now so strong we can move out to meet you in Belgium or The Netherlands or Switzerland, or anywhere else that you may strike-even in the Balkans-and indeed we might move there against you without waiting for you to strike...
Then he left for Switzerland, dropping his tools in Stuttgart on the way. Being a worrier, however, he went back to Munich and entered the Bürgerbräu Keller (one of the best protected places in the world) several times in the night of the 7th to listen to the ticking...
...matter where they originate, are censored. A suspicious wire from Amsterdam to the Paris office of the New York Times had its first three lines deleted. They read: "Grover Whalen arrived at The Hague from Brussels and says he is satisfied with the results of his talks in Switzerland, France and Rome...
...group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics. Most of them are finally released. Their leader (Roland Drew) escapes with no more trouble than it takes to run across a field to a hay cart, finds it just as easy to rejoin his wife (Steffi Duna) in Switzerland...