Word: switzerland
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TIME would have a hard job to find a Swiss of any generation who has not in his past a military tradition. Military, mind you, not militaristic. Even though the Swiss have not fought actively in 100 years, the tradition is completely alive. In some parts of Switzerland, masses for the dead are said every year for soldiers who fell in the glorious encounter at Morgarten in 1315. That fight was against invading Habsburgs, who never could, nor apparently can, keep their rapacious hands off a free people...
Best indication of what many Frenchmen thought of the Laval regime was the circulation of a report that coloness, amiable Albert Lebrun, last President of the Third Republic, had fled to Switzerland...
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...last two years Arno Huth, international radio authority, has been quietly inspecting world radio from the offices of the Geneva Research Centre in Switzerland. Last week his report, Radio Today; the Present State of Broadcasting in the World, was available in the U.S. Findings...