Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under Foreign News, I read about the "stingy Swiss." (Yes, I am Swiss myself.) I do not object to your mentioning the fact that the "stingy Swiss" did not give the new President an inauguration. But I suspect you of not being properly informed concerning the Presidency in Switzerland...
...with the pernicious effects of an inherited legend upon a nice young man. Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine, she had achieved a double relationship to Bonaparte when she was married off to his brother, the crippled King of Holland. After Waterloo she gave up her lovers...
Each of the participating colleges will send six delegates for each of the countries it represents. These in turn will sit on six respective committees corresponding in general to those of the actual League. Germany, Switzerland, and Honduras will be represented by Harvard...
...policy lies deep,. Pierre Laval's visit was best viewed after a flashback to last March, when Il Duce unfolded before the Fascist Quinquennial Assembly of 4,000 prominent Blackshirts his 60-year plan (TIME. March 26). After making his favorite ironical remark "Our relations with Switzerland continue to be friendly." the Dictator challenged Frenchmen thus: "Reality demands that I state that none of the problems which have existed between France and ourselves for 15 years has been solved...
...natives, Germany is Deutschland, Egypt is Misr, Greece is Hellas, Finland is Suomi, China is Chung-Hua Min-Kuo ("The Middle Flowery Republic") and officially trilingual Switzerland is Schweiz, Suisse or Svizzera...