Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s In Switzerland...
Referring to your article, "No Land of Saints" [TIME, Sept. 24], I wish to tell you that if unfavorable reports about U.S. soldiers come out of Germany, Belgium, etc., you have every reason to be proud of your G.I.s visiting Switzerland. These soldiers, who arrive in Switzerland at the rate of about a thousand a day, are the very prototype of gentlemanlike, tactful tourists. Every Swiss will agree that they behave admirably, and for this reason are liked better than any foreigner who has ever visited this country...
...Suhr, Switzerland...
General Electric's quiet-voiced Irving Langmuir said that secrecy would not save the U.S. He pointed out that England and Russia had already announced atomic programs, that France, Switzerland and Sweden also have the required technical skills. Overemphasis on secrecy, he added, had backfired even before Hiroshima. The military's pointed refusal last June to let U.S. and British atomic scientists attend a scientific meeting in Moscow should have tipped the Russians off. Langmuir may credit the Russians with more perspicacity than they had. There are signs that news of the bomb surprised them...
Black George's grandson, Peter, a quiet, aging (60) exile in Switzerland, was summoned to the throne in 1903. He led Serbia through the two Balkan wars and World...