Word: volksrecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less doggedly independent lands would have toppled long ago, but Switzerland's reaction to the new situation was to answer the obvious question before it was asked. Said the democratic Volksrecht: "It is of the greatest importance that we leave no doubt in anybody's mind that not even the most hopeless situation will make us capitulate voluntarily, and before we can be commanded we have got to be beaten. . . ." These were no hollow words. Switzerland, too, had some trumps...
...warnings from the Swiss Nazi Die Front that "first shots can be dangerous." In Zurich, filmgoers stood and applauded Mrs. Miniver, which critics hailed as "a touching document of democratic courage." Swiss censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht answered Nazi Press Chief Dietrich's charge that Switzerland was giving up "spiritual neutrality": "We reject spiritual eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality! Statesmen of great powers should have learned by now that neither love nor liking can be ordered...
Said Zurich's Volksrecht; "The prospect of death can scare no one who must imagine what the 'New Europe' of tomorrow will be like from the way it looks today...
Whether Schmidt's burst was bad-tempered carelessness or a balloon to find out whether neutrals were still afraid of Germany, the answer was the Zurich Volksrecht's headline: "Wir machen nicht mit!" ("We won't play ball...
...inevitably the chief victims have been the dwellers on Vesuvius. By the end of August 1,000,000 Germans were said to be homeless, a total of five and a half square miles of German cities wiped off the map. The same Swiss correspondent wrote in the Zurich Volksrecht...
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