Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hostile to Russia entering the League were Canada, Belgium. Holland, Jugoslavia and Switzerland. Their leaders continued to bear in mind that Josef Stalin heads the one regime whose members are pledged, through the Third International, to destruction of Capitalist regimes throughout the world. For tactical reasons Dictator Stalin has slowed up for the present the drive of the Third International for "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." He has not abandoned that great aim, pledges and repledges himself to it in addresses to the Russian people. But Britain, France and Italy, intent on nailing down the frontiers of Germany...
...tiny Easter Island, isolated eastern outpost of the Polynesians, a French navy gunboat deposited a hopeful group of investigators headed by Professor Alfred Metraux of Switzerland. Ever since it was first inspected by Europeans on Easter Day, 1722, the island has baffled scientists because of its wooden tablets engraved with pictographs which have not been deciphered, its hundreds of huge busts carved from volcanic ash. Expecting little help from the 250 inhabitants (reduced from 5,000 or 6,000 by emigration and polyandry), the Metraux party will make one more attempt to decode the pictographs, discover who made the statues...
...bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never think of buying absinthe, but make it at home from their own weeds. Swiss law, while banning the sale of absinthe in Switzerland, permits every farmer to make as much as he likes...
...mark fee for an Austrian visa, were held up on the Austro-German border on technicalities. But "My Leader's" efforts seemed to attract more visitors than they kept away. From France, Italy, the U. S.. Scandinavia, the crowds poured in. Willem Mengelberg arrived from Switzerland. Arturo Toscanini, who had snubbed Germany's invitation to conduct at Bayreuth, arrived from Italy. King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen were on hand. No Nazis could prevent German Bruno Walter from conducting because they had already exiled him. When the Reich's Chamber of Culture asked Charles Kullman...
...Archconspirator Gachinovich had been obliged to flee to Switzerland, but Bosnian rebels went to confer with him and at these conferences the details of Franz Ferdinand's assassination were worked out. Student Princip, the actual assassin, was designated by Vladimir Gachinovich as his trustiest and most intimate friend. Too intellectual to risk being present when the shots that started the War were fired, Vladimir Gachinovich also did not feel called upon to enlist or fight, stayed on quietly at Lausanne where he peacefully died...