Word: switzerland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Great Britain, according to the Graphic and the Referee, wants peace, and to that end will force an iron ultimatum upon the Nazis, but the Graphic somewhat unfortunately goes on to say that Great Britain will build a hundred airships in any case. Daladier rumbles out even stronger threats; Switzerland insists that the German offensive will cross her soil, and only from Doorn and from the perspiring Nazi emissary to Geneva is there silence...
...shopkeepers in all parts of Europe is the idea of carving up department stores that recently it has been taken up by Swiss Nazis, insignificant in numbers as yet. Last week the Swiss State Council voted 23 to 1 to bar the opening of any new department stores in Switzerland, also forbade enlargement of existing stores...
...Manhattan by the American Jewish Congress, Dr. Ludwig boasted that the Nazi burning of his books and those of many another Jew and Pacifist, including Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), is helping to boost their world sales, quickening the flow of royalty checks to Switzerland where Friends Ludwig and Remarque bank their money in gold francs. "The night of the public burning of the books," said Author Ludwig. "I invited my friend, Erich Maria Remarque, to drink with me. We opened our oldest Rhine wine, turned on the radio, heard the flames crackling, heard the speeches...
...Government would countenance no counter terrorism, would set up no concentration camps for political prisoners like the Nazi camps in Germany. No sooner was he off for Switzerland than Vice Chancellor Fey, now Acting Chancellor, ordered the first two such camps set up near Vienna, one at Wollersdorff, the other at Bruck an der Leitha. Nazis and "persons against whom well-grounded suspicion exists that they are preparing for or assisting in treasonable actions," will not only be interned there, but must pay their own keep. Chancellor Dollfuss ignored Vice Chancellor Fey's doings but bristled up in Geneva...
Standard Statistics Co. Inc., world's largest figure factory, estimated that $1,000,000,000 had flown the Atlantic, the bulk of it to London. France, whose tie to gold is none too secure, has received little, but Holland and Switzerland have been drowned in dollars. Unlike the export of gold which is strictly banned,* the flight from the dollar has been quietly encouraged by Washington; it pushed down the price without requiring devaluation by Presidential decree...