Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile immobilizing troops of the Maginot Line proper by holding attacks, the Germans kept some 30 divisions poised on the Swiss border ready to strike into France through the Burgundy Gap. South of Switzerland Benito Mussolini's Army was a final threat...
Swiss Blitz? The Swiss had good reason to believe the next blow was soon coming their way. The Army passed from partial to full mobilization, 600,000 troops. Many Swiss mechanized units which had been massed on the frontiers were moved to central Switzerland to attack any large Nazi sky units which might land. With every Swiss male between 20 and 60 mobilized, the Government gave rifles and 40 cartridges each to striplings, oldsters and women, with instructions to shoot the 'chuters. Hastily Swiss banks and insurance companies dumped the last of their securities into fleets of trucks which...
Heavy German motorized divisions and artillery meanwhile rolled into position on the Rhine facing Switzerland, but big guns of the French Maginot Line opened up with a terrific shelling of communication lines which Nazis would use to attack the Swiss. On Lake Constance, in full view of Swiss watchers on the farther shore, German troops practiced pontoon and rubber-boat warfare daily...
Leaders of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant faiths will join in discussions with diplomats from Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and other countries, as well as with noted businessmen and educators...
Evening lecturers at the conference will include Dr. Hjalmar J. Procope, Minister from Finland; Mr. Charles Bruggman, Minister from Switzerland; Dr. A. Loudon, Minister from the Netherlands; Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Pastor of the Community Church, New York City; Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence, of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts; and Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard University, Washington...