Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike followed by further protests against the dictatorial rule of Poland's boss Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, has piled up an impressive casualty list of dead and wounded (TIME, Sept. 6), the revolting farmers found an unexpected ally. From the obscurity of his self-imposed exile in Merges, Switzerland, 76-year-old Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski cracked out a manifesto...
Dictator Smigly-Rydz, knowing that Pianist-Statesman Paderewski had conferred in Switzerland with Witos and other opponents of the military "Colonels' clique" that dominates Warsaw, immediately suppressed every Warsaw paper that attempted to print the Paderewski manifesto (which compelled the secret circulation of the manifesto hand-to-hand), and replied to Paderewski's demand for the cessation of reprisals against the Peasant Party with a new crop of arrests...
...Britain and France were ready to act last week, though hoping always to avoid an open break with Italy. France, knowing Benito Mussolini's hatred of the very sound of Geneva, maneuvered to have the twelve power piracy conference held at Nyon, one of the few towns in Switzerland that has not yet profited from the crowded hotels of an international conference...
...prestige of that victory helped win for Premier van Zeeland unofficial command of the expanded Oslo Group of nations (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Switzerland) and three months ago he went to the U. S. to present to President Roosevelt the ideas of these countries, who have agreed to be neutral in any coming European war (TIME, June 14, July 5). Returning with still added prestige, Paul van Zeeland seemed ready to compete with Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes for the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...long blemished the otherwise total dominance of the northern and western half of Spain by the Rightist forces. This territory last week was populated by 14,000,000 of Spain's 25,000,000 people in 35 of her 50 provinces. To the governments of Germany, Italy. Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala it has been for almost a year an autonomous state. Significantly, the Vatican, too-which, whatever else may be said, works as hard over its diplomacy as any first class power-chose the day after Santander's fall to extend de facto recognition. Having...