Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arbitration of some disputes by the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague. This court is affiliated with the League of Nations, from which Japan withdrew in a huff. But that was five years ago, and, moreover, the Japanese have not yet denounced a similar treaty with Switzerland...
Skeptics looked elsewhere and had cause to suspect that perhaps the real reason could be found in The Netherlands Indies, the rich, oil-laden islands in the South Seas. Switzerland does not own colonies. Tokyo correspondents quickly dug up a forgotten paragraph of a recent Arita speech in which the Foreign Minister spoke of "economic cooperation and collaboration" with "South Seas regions." Hugh Byas, the New York Times'?, man in Tokyo, believed that "collaboration" meant "more than cultivation of mutual trade." He speculated on the possibility of a U. S. embargo on oil exports to Japan, and the subsequent...
...only was Katharine Dewey the first woman ever to win the national championship, but her time for the third heat was only 27/100 of a second over the record for the Mount Van Hoevenberg run, one of the world's fastest. Only Switzerland's St. Moritz is faster...
...poor are getting poorer," Fritz Thyssen, German steel tycoon, lamented last week in a caustic interview on Nazi Germany. He spoke to New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews at Locarno, Switzerland, whither he fled last November...
...career, in 1935, Pianist Horowitz cracked up. Soon after leaving the U. S. for a year's European tour he was laid low by an appendectomy complicated by phlebitis. For months he was unable to touch the piano. For two years he convalesced at his home in Switzerland. Only in 1938 was he able to get back to a concert platform, and then only for a few scattered recitals in European capitals. But last week, on a new U. S. tour, Pianist Horowitz made a comeback at Carnegie Hall. Manhattan concertgoers proved they had not forgotten him. When...