Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Second, we want, if possible, to have our neutrality guaranteed as is the case in Belgium and Switzerland. We are still too small and too unformed to stand alone against the ring of enemies about us. Lastly, we want material support--supplies, provisions, medicines, everything. The war has left us destitute and the misery of my country is beyond description...
...Brazil 1, Canada 51, Chile 1, China 43, Cuba 3, Denmark 3, Egypt 3, England 6, France 8, Gold Coast 1, Greece 2, Holland 2, Hungary 1, India 6, British West Indies 2, Japan 33, Mexico 3, Norway 10, Russia 4, Siam 1, South Africa 12, Sweden 6, Switzerland 4, Turkey 2, Venezuela 1, West Africa...
...Chandler advances that militarism is not synonymous with conscription; that in Switzerland we have the latter without the former; that General Pershing is demonstrably not biased by his profession, that we must have an "adequate" army; that a democracy is immune from militarism...
...Switzerland, in spite of conscription, is not notably militaristic--because she cannot possibly profit from a war with any of the nations she can possibly have to fight; and knows it. Does Mr. Chandler suggest a parallel...
Militarism is a state of mind which poisons the acts and life of a whole nation; and as such it may be totally independent of universal military service. Switzerland, for example, maintains a system of military training that has proved of inestimable value alike to the individual and to the nation; yet, few would venture to say that Switzerland is "burdened with an incubus" or that it suffers from "the odium of professional militarism...