Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss authorities declared that an estimated 140 Jews per day had been "clandestinely" fleeing from Germany into Switzerland, announced that barbed wire is being strung along the frontier to stem this "Jewish flood." Jewish refugee camps in Switzerland were reported jampacked last week. The camp at Diepoldsau hoisted a banner reading: "THANKS TO THE SWISS PEOPLE...
...Mountains in central Switzerland have already been deeply tunneled with caches of war supplies...
Hearings before the National Defense Committee as to how Switzerland can best defend herself brought to light last week Striking facts and proposals...
...Another Deputy proposed that since France is the firm and potent friend of Switzerland, the safest place for war supplies would be in depots close to the French frontier...
Into his occasional proclamations from Switzerland, France's handsome, six-foot, 24-year-old Bonapartist Pretender, His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon† commonly flings some such ringing piece of Corsican bravado as "My name is the most glorious guarantee France has ever had of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity!" Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless...