Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German masses are not wholly in the dark: they often listen to foreign broadcasts and they have learned to read between the lines of their communiques. When the German press reported that somebody had unsuccessfully tried to explode the Rhine bridge to Basel in northwest Switzerland, Rhinelanders cracked: "It must be the Russian Partisans trying to cut off the Wehrmacht's retreat...
...really runs Switzerland is lady-killing Baron von Bibera, the German Minister." (No Minister is Freiherr Sigismund von Bibra-Lanius misspelled his name-but Botschaftsrat, i.e. Counsellor of Embassy; and Switzerland, independent since 1291, is still ruled by its seven-man Federal Council...
...Swiss are being pressured into giving more and more [food] to Germany." (Although the Swiss are trading some dairy products for other goods they need, Switzerland imports from Axis or Axis-occupied countries four times as much as she exports...
...Today Switzerland is just one big factory working day and night for the Germans." (Until France fell the Swiss worked almost exclusively for the Allies, now have to sell to German markets lest the Nazis withhold vital coal supplies. Even so, Switzerland still trades with the U.S., has 14 Swiss ships plying the Atlantic...
...Swiss had a right to be angry. In World War II Switzerland has taken over the monumental task of representing U.S. interests in every occupied European country and every country with which the U.S. is at war. The International Red Cross in Switzerland provides the only contact for the Allies with their war prisoners in Axis hands. With its own meager rations and funds, Switzerland since 1940 has fed back to life 50,000 starving children of France, Yugoslavia and Greece, is still taking them in for a stay of three to four months each...