Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoulder against the U. S. on War Debt payments stirred the Senate to noisy apprehension. As an outgrowth of the Lausanne agreement on Reparations, troubled legislators viewed it as a European united front to force Revision, if not Cancellation. There were dark intimations that U. S. diplomats in Switzerland had been consulted, had even given informal assent to the debtors' doings. This the State Department sharply denied. Raw nerves were further soothed when, largely for domestic political consumption. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah as follows...
Last week Dr. Henry E. Sigerist of Switzerland became professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Because there are comparatively few chairs of the history of medicine in U. S. universities and because Dr. Sigerist is primarily an historian rather than a physician, his appointment was of particular interest to medical men. More important, he is the man chosen to succeed U. S. Medicine's venerable "dean," Dr. William Henry ("Popsie") Welch, 82, as head of Johns Hopkins' expensive Institute of the History of Medicine...
Though Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen was in Switzerland attending the Lausanne Conference last week, he received incessant telephone calls from Berlin, kept in closest touch. On soft-spoken but reactionary Chancellor von Papen, the German masses blamed decrees and orders which...
...Fatherland for "much less" than the French have been offering, received a mere 100 million marks ($23,820,000). The Dutch end of the deal was quietly arranged. For good or evil, Chancellor von Papen must go down in history as the man who while absent in Switzerland brought under German Government control last week more than two-fifths of the Fatherland's production of pig iron and rolled steel and nearly one-sixth of its coal and iron ore mining industry...
...months that he was Chancellor into a figure commanding vast respect and not a little liking throughout Europe. Camarilla or no camarilla, intrigue or no intrigue, the German Chancellor today is Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Through his bony fingers pass the affairs of a Great Power. In Switzerland last week he seemed to be finding himself, seemed to be learning, had he not learned before, how to tackle foreign affairs from the Teutonic point of view. Chatting one day about the Young Plan with Premier Edouard Herriot of France, he quietly observed : "None of the promises have come true...