Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week dozens of British warplanes droned over Switzerland on their way to bomb northern Italy. Antiaircraft batteries opened fire and the Swiss High Command claimed to have dispersed one squadron. Next day the Government made a second energetic, but futile, protest to London. The High Command took more effective action, ordered the entire country blacked out from 10 o'clock every night until dawn. The Swiss explained that instead of compelling respect for their neutrality, normal lighting had guided pilots on their...
Last week Italy waked up to the fact that although Italians could not learn from their own papers how badly things were going in Greece, they could read all about it in papers from Switzerland. Several Swiss newspapers, including the Tribune de Geneve, were banned. Fascist Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda issued a stern warning to the Swiss press to stop printing what he called "unneutral" war news. The rest of the Italian press immediately took up the cry in shriller tones. Cried Popolo di Brescia...
...will place the name of Switzerland, which for months has allowed air violations by enemy aircraft, side by side with that of our detested enemy. The fate of Greece and Turkey already is sealed, and so is the fate of the little mercantile, intellectually dull, anti-Italian and anti-German Swiss...
Divorced. Dorothy Gould Baer Guisan, daughter of muchmarried Frank Jay Gould, granddaughter of famed Financier Jay Gould; by Lieut. Colonel Henri Louis Guisan, son of General Henri Guisan, Commander in Chief of Switzerland's Army; at Lucerne, Switzerland...
...France, mountainous Edouard Herriot, three times Premier, last President of the Chamber of Deputies, Mayor of Lyon, whose booming voice has resounded in French politics since 1905, was arrested by the secret police of Vichy. Having sought security from the Nazis in Switzerland, M. Herriot erred in believing unoccupied France was safe for Radical Socialists, returned...