Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Reeves's wife has for years been invalided by asthma, is now living in Switzerland for her health. One son, Joseph Jr., is a capable California artist. The other, William Cunningham, was graduated from West Point last year, is an Army flyer...
...English and French industries maintained to Germany a steady stream of glycerin (or explosives), nickel, copper, oil, and rubber. Germany even returned the compliment: she sent France iron and steel and magnetos for gasoline engines. This constant traffic went on during the war via Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, or Holland, by the simple process of transshipment--enemy to neutral to enemy...
...control, had to scratch hard for iron and steel. Continuously, therefore, what one nation lacked, the armament manufacturers of an enemy nation did their urgent best to provide. Month after month. German heavy industries exported an average of 150,000 tons of scrap iron, steel, or barbed wire to Switzerland, where, having been smelted to a more convenient form, it was then transshipped to France. France, in her turn, shipped chemicals to the Lonza Co. (a Swiss industrial concern, German controlled, but with directors who were French, Italian, and Austrian as well) from which they reached munitions works in Germany...
...complex; the only real competitor any of them has is peace. Says Author Seldes: "It is a recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed wire helped defend Verdun...
...Switzerland, aware that she may be the Belgium of the next war, prepared to reorganize her entire army...