Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royalists were busy too. From London, Spain's ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie had flown to Switzerland for talks with her son, the Pretender Don Juan, great-grandson of England's Queen Victoria. Monarchists believed that the Queen had first talked with Winston Churchill...
...grand strategic scale, the whole Allied effort between Luxembourg and Switzerland seemed also a diversion. It forced the Germans to protect the Saar, the Moselle approach to Trier and Coblenz, and the Lorraine gate to Karlsruhe, while the heaviest blows of the new winter drive are delivered in the north...
Russia and Switzerland have had no diplomatic relations since 1918, when the Swiss expelled a Russian mission for fostering Communist strikes. Business be tween the two countries was brisk. But good will was. not increased when four years ago the Swiss Government cracked down on both the Swiss Communist Party and home-grown Nazis...
Replied the Kremlin: "For many years the Swiss Government . . . has been pursuing a hostile pro-fascist policy toward the Soviet Union." (Russia had already pulled out of the International Aviation Conference "in Chicago because Switzerland, Spain and Portugal were invited...
Foreign Minister Pilet-Golaz soon resigned. Said the Basel National Zeitung, organ of his own Radical Democratic Party: "Why have we been so slow? . . ." Said the socialist Berner Tagwacht: "Let . . . the Soviet Union not forget that it was Switzerland that sheltered Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries until...