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...well, the American Legion opened its campaign against my San Diego neighbor Professor Marcuse, an action I read as a warning to keep my peace about the war or risk being dealt with Chicago-style myself . . . I took the least frequently hijacked run to New York, and then to Zurich...
...years passed and the spark failed to light any major fires, he grew discouraged. Six weeks before the February 1917 revolution, which would depose Czar Nicholas II, Lenin, then 46, told a group of young Socialists in Zurich: "We old people will probably not live to see the decisive battles of the coming revolution." Less than a year later, he was established as the heir of the Romanovs...
Fate has been less than kind to some of Switzerland's cherished enterprises. Foreigners are slicing into the Swiss cheese business with their own ersatz varieties; spies who used to patronize hotels in Geneva and Zurich have decamped to Vienna and Berlin; the U.S. Government is threatening to tighten up on Americans' use of secret Swiss bank accounts. Worst of all, the Swiss watch industry, for 300 years a source of national pride and world prominence, is facing an upsurge of international competition...
...asked the Soviet Writers' Union to protect his author's rights. Now that he has been expelled from the union, Solzhenitsyn has engaged a Swiss lawyer, Fritz Heeb, to balk what he regards as "the exploitation and distortion" of his work by publishers in the West. In Zurich last week, Heeb told TIME: "Solzhenitsyn has no intention of becoming the easy prey of unscrupulous publishers. He intends to take legal action, if necessary, to prevent the misuse of his name and the unauthorized publication of his work." Heeb described the charge that Solzhcnitsyn's royalties have gone...
...Patman bill will at least require U.S. banks to be as helpful to the Government as they have been unquestioning of their customers. This week a delegation from Zurich will arrive in Washington to discuss a treaty to curb the use of secret accounts for activities illegal under Swiss law. But in such matters as tax evasion, which is not considered a crime in Switzerland, the Swiss have given no indication that they are willing to help enforce U.S. tax laws. This makes even more urgent the Patman bill's provision to require disclosure before money bound for Switzerland...