Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deepest blow to the Olympics was dealt by Switzerland, which withdrew on November 8, only to re-enter and then withdraw again. On November 11 the Swiss drew up a resolution banning "warring nations" from the games, which will be voted upon by the International Committee in Australia...
...Eden and France's Mollet put out feelers for a face-saving Washington summit conference, the White House was pointedly not listening. And when Swiss President Markus Feldmann proposed at week's end that the Big Four get together (with India's Nehru) in Switzerland, the President politely replied that the U.S. was conducting its crisis diplomacy through the U.N., and "I believe that the interests of all will be best served by carrying these initiatives to a successful conclusion...
...Swedish U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold set about raising the small-power force prescribed by the General Assembly. Within the week he had arranged with seven governments to provide policing troops. The U.S. Defense Department was ready with planes and equipment to ferry some of the force into operation. Switzerland (which is not a U.N. member) was so scared out of its neutrality that it made arrangements for Swissair to airlift 400 men a day from Italy to Cairo...
Other nations saw eye-to-eye with the Dutch. Spain and Switzerland withdrew. But this week, after worldwide appeals from sports fans and Olympic officials that the Swiss withdrawal would not help the cause of anti-Communism or world sport, the Swiss reversed themselves; all Swiss teams would participate except the gymnasts, who still refused to compete alongside the Russians...
...miracle, old party leaders appeared. Bela Kovacs, sturdy Smallholders secretary, recently released after nine years in Soviet prison camps, joined the government because "we must establish national unity." The Smallholders' exiled leader Ferenc Nagy had come as far as the border, but had been turned back to Switzerland by the Austrians. Tough old Ferenc Farkas, onetime National Peasant Party leader, bobbed up. Social Democrat Anna Kethly, ailing as a result of long imprisonment in Russia, was on her way back (with a supply of newsprint) when her way was barred by Soviet tanks...