Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Henry Noel Marryat Hardy, a D.S.O. and Croix de Guerre man of World War I, who returned to duty last year out of retirement in Switzerland, turned four of his eight 6-inchers loose, and tried to close, full speed. He repeatedly hit the German, who had to turn and use her port batteries when the starboard ones were evidently disabled. But the German kept on running, being a raider, not supposed to stand and fight. She had much more foot than the Carnarvon Castle's 17 knots and so, behind smoke screens, she escaped; but not before...
Over a year before the war Friedelind had enough of Nazi Germany, moved to Switzerland. At break of war, she appealed to music-loving Arthur Beverley Baxter, M.P., a Canadian-born British Tory, to get her admitted to England. She reached London just before France was smashed...
Then, having rescued Miss Wagner from Switzerland, the British arrested her last summer. In her luggage police found photographs of her and Hitler together and that clinched it. She was interned as an enemy alien. To her defense last week went eloquent Beverley Baxter...
...contrast to its silence in September, when D.N.B. (Nazi news agency) reported that Germany's Catholic bishops had written a pastoral letter glorifying Adolf Hitler-and the only Catholic denial came from neutral Switzerland-the Vatican broadcast lashed out also at Nazi maltreatment of the faithful: "The latest news item from Austria announces that the closing of monasteries continues, the latest monasteries to be closed being those of the Capuchins at Innsbruck and the Franciscans at Hall. All the goods of the religious church have been confiscated...
That was all very well, but before invading Switzerland the Axis will think four times. One thought will be for the tough little Swiss Army, one for the perpendicular Swiss terrain. Two thoughts will be for the St. Gotthard and Simplon tunnels, which the Swiss could blow up and thereby close two of Italy's five life lines for German coal and other things. Dynamite, not diplomacy, has kept Switzerland an island of comparative freedom in the heart of Hitler's Europe...