Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their devotion to neutrality, the canny, conservative men who govern Switzerland frequently carry noninvolvement in international politics to a point where the mountains seem to echo to the cry of hear no evil and see no evil. But the events in Hungary have stirred the Swiss like nothing has in years. Last week, casting traditional impartiality to the winds, Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre told the Swiss Parliament that in Hungary "we have witnessed and are witnessing the cold enslavement, through armed force, arrests and deportations, of a nation whose only crime is to strive for independence. There...
None of this, concluded Petitpierre, meant that Switzerland should abandon the absolute neutrality which has even led her to reject membership in the U.N. "But," he emphasized, "neutrality as we practice it is not tantamount to moral neutrality, neutralism or indifference...
...Basel, Switzerland...
...outbreak of World War I, Russian-born Alexei Jawlensky took refuge in Switzerland, after being expelled from Germany without being permitted to take along so much as one painting. To his aid came a young German painter, Emy Scheyer, one of the many women who found Jawlensky's combination of bearlike strength and artistocratic charm irresistible. She gave up painting to devote her life to promoting his work, built up her own collection to include more than 120 of Jawlensky's works, which, along with those of Klee, Kandinsky and Feininger, are now kept intact as a permanent...
Died. Emil Georg Buehrle, 66, multimillionaire art collector and sole owner of Switzerland's vast armaments-making Oerlikon Machine Tool Works; of a heart attack; in Zurich. German-born Weapons-Maker Buehrle, reputedly Switzerland's richest man, got his firm blacklisted during World War II by peddling his 20-mm. antiaircraft gun to the Axis...