Word: switzerland
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Weber. Only slightly less than Austria has German Switzerland been bombarded with Nazi propaganda. Stolid German Swiss have been unmoved at offers to trade their dull commercial comfort for the hysterical frenzy of the Third Reich, but last week they got mad. At Ramsen on the German border three Nazi toughs crossed the Swiss frontier, beat off a Swiss customs guard before he could summon aid, seized a Czech citizen named Hermann Weber, dragged him screaming into Germany. There have been a series of similar incidents. Switzerland's unvarying foreign policy (MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS) has kept all Swiss...
...then despatched post haste to Irak by agitated Scot MacDonald. Meanwhile in Bagdad, King Feisal who as a Mohammedan does not greatly object to the massacre of Assyrians or other Christians, tried to dodge all responsibility by insisting that his health is poor, that he must fly to Switzerland "to complete my cure...
When the black-jacketed, long-trousered schoolboys of Eton College gather again this autumn after their seven-week Long Vacation, some of their first chatterings will be about the jolly bad luck that four of their masters had last week. Mountain-climbing in Switzerland were House-Masters H. E. Howson, E. V. Slater, E. W. Powell (an Oxford Blue, onetime winner of the Henley Diamond Sculls), and Assistant Master C. R. White-Thomson, eldest son of the Bishop of Ely. Roped together, they were toiling up dangerous Mt. Roseg, near Pontresina. When they did not return on schedule searchers went...
...uniformed Germans from Bavarian territory ambushed and killed an Austrian sentry near Kufstein on the Bavarian frontier." Two days later uniformed German Nazis crossed the Swiss frontier near Basle, searched the shed of a Swiss watchman whom they accused of smuggling Communist leaflets into the Reich. Promptly both Switzerland and France strengthened their guards along the German frontier and Chancellor Dollfuss saw another chance for a smart move. He protested to London, Paris and Rome that the Austrian army (limited by the Treaty of St. Germain to 30,000 soldiers who must enlist for twelve years) is far too small...
Until last week the standing joke about the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) at Basle, Switzerland has been that its vaults contained only one bit of actual money-an antique 25? U. S. gold piece. The B. I. S. was created to transfer by bookkeeping methods millions and billions in all sorts of monies between central banks. Lately a very few bankers decided that the B. I. S., as the only bank in the world not responsible to any one government, might be a good place to keep gold. In its monthly statement last week...