Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin the snowdrifts melted; crossings were flooded; the first flowers-tulips, daisies-went on sale in the streets. In Brussels, where the Lenten processions these days end with prayers that Belgium can keep out of the war; in Switzerland, where patches of brown earth began to fleck the foothills of the Alps, and drove the skiers higher; in Paris, where a sudden blazing sun brought tables back to cafe terraces and cheerful strolling crowds back to the Champs-Elysées-Europe last week was poised between winter and the dread spring that may launch the great offensive...
...Switzerland. In a hotel in Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner...
Axis. Great Britain is prepared to supply Italy with British coal instead of German, and Italy must somehow get foreign coal if her industry is not to stop. Normally she imports four-fifths of her coal. German coal could be routed via Switzerland to Italy by rail, but the hard-pressed Reich cannot spare enough rolling stock for that. Last week Dictator Mussolini began warming up again the stale Rome-Berlin Axis...
...government of a neutral country to proclaim its neutral attitude . . . while public opinion has the freedom to insult! . . ." Meanwhile, German newspapers bristled with angry editorials attacking the Swiss press, which had referred to Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland as countries "occupied by Germany." Dr. Göebbels' editors reminded Switzerland that it was a small country and would do well to curb any unfriendly opinions in its press...
...course of my life I have crossed the ocean about fifty times, principally to go mountain-climbing tin Switzerland, and I usually go to the West Indies about twice a year," stated Professor Marks, who can look back on 46 years of teaching at the University...