Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lugano-Paradiso, Switzerland...
Last week Egypt was still not a member of the League of Nations but, mindful of Britain's promise about "capitulations," gathered together representatives of the twelve capitulatory powers, including the U. S., in the hotel at Montreux, Switzerland where last July the Powers agreed to restore the Dardanelles to Turkey (TIME, July 27). Master of ceremonies was Egypt's ambitious Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha...
Died, The Hon. Hersey Alice Eveleigh de Moleyns Hope, Dowager Marchioness Linlithgow, mother of the Viceroy of India (see p. 22); in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...rren, Switzerland, where Europe's best skiers were racing for the Arlberg-Kandahar trophy, Germany's Rudi Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom-through a zigzag, flag-marked course-in which Allais had finished third...
Appointed. Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer, 53, of the Bank of England, member of the League of Nations Financial Committee since 1922; to be president of the Bank for International Settlements, succeeding Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip of Holland; in Basle, Switzerland...