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...neutrality in world affairs.* As early as 1674 the Swiss Diet officially pronounced the concept to be the country's guiding principle. The one time that Switzerland was forced to join an outside conflict-by leaping to the Austro-British side against Napoleon in 1815 six days before Waterloo-Swiss soldiers sent into France lost interest, turned around and went home. Neutral in two world wars this century. Switzerland is today not even a member of the United Nations...
...Boys," a famous headmaster of Eton once remarked, "you must be pure in heart, for if not, I will thrash you till you are." For centuries, guided by such rough-and-ready principals, Eton turned out 19 Prime Ministers, hundreds of British M.P.s, and presumably won the battle of Waterloo on its playing fields. But in this querulous century, in novels and memoirs, such latter-day Etonians as Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Connolly and George Orwell have all looked back in irony or outrage at the cult of games, the bullying and beatings, the high premium placed by school...
...most closely guarded of Gaullist secrets: the fact that his maternal great-great-grandfather was born in Germany. De Gaulle's Teutonic ancestor was Ludwig Phillip Kolb, a barber-surgeon in Napoleon's army, who was born in Grotzingen in 1761 and fell to British bullets at Waterloo...
...girls in their summer dresses might well have arrived by bus from Waterloo, Iowa. Some of the boys looked like members of the chorus of West Side Story. Except for the slightly waddling walk that characterizes ballet dancers, few Sunday strollers would recognize them as the youngsters of the Bolshoi on their day off. Every Sunday since they arrived in the U.S. four weeks ago, they have been wandering . happily around New York like a family of prize mallards...
...Battle of Waterloo and defeat of Napoleon. Britain, other European powers at Congress of Vienna inaugurate a century of overall peace in Western Europe...