Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly unusual types. On the advice of other U.S. officials, however, he passed up as a waste of time a chance to meet a strange journalist with a beard and some off-center political ideas. The bearded scribbler, Dulles later discovered, was Nicolai Lenin, who was about to leave Switzerland for Russia and the revolution. Ever since, Dulles has insisted on seeing almost anyone who wants to talk with him. Says he: "You never know when or where lightning will strike...
Less than two months after Pearl Harbor, Dulles was back in Government service, this time with what was to become the Office of Strategic Services. A few months later he headed off for Switzerland by way of Spain and unoccupied Southern France. He very nearly failed to make it. Alarmed by the North African invasion, the Germans had decided to take over Vichy France. At the Swiss border, Dulles was held up by a French official who seemed more impressed by the watchful eye of the local Gestapo man than by Dulles' impassioned references to Lafayette and Pershing. Finally...
Article II C. A Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission is established. It is composed of one officer each from Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The N.N.S.C. will have 20 neutral-nations inspection teams, and will watch five Communist "ports of entry" (Sinuiju, Chongjin, Hungnam. Manpo, Sinanju) and five U.N. centers (Inchon, Taegu, Pusan, Kangnung, Kunsan...
Article III. All prisoners desiring repatriation will be returned within 60 days. The others will be placed in custody of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (India, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia) and guarded by Indian troops only. To placate Syngman Rhee, the Indians will take custody in a part of the buffer zone near Panmunjom-which is outside Rhee's administrative area. For 90 days the Reds may send representatives to persuade the unwilling prisoners to return to their homeland. The number of such "explainers" is limited to seven for each 1,000 prisoners, and the interviews will be monitored...
...this year, 88 climbers have been killed on the mountains of France, Italy and Switzerland, one of the highest death tolls in Alpine history...