Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WORLD COURT In the nine years of its existence, the Permanent Court of International Justice -offspring of the League of Nations-has been the subject of mountainous reams of essay, interminable hours of debate. It has rendered just 17 judgments. In 1920 U. S. Minister to Switzerland Pleasant A. Stovall signed World Court articles of adherence for the U. S. Government, only to have, the U. S. Senate place so many reservations on U. S. participation that other member nations refused to accept the Stovall signature...
...Minister to Switzerland Hugh R. Wilson had gone home to the U. S. for Christmas...
Early this fall the music world worried while Ignace Jan Paderewski, 69, underwent an operation for appendicitis in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 7). It marveled when he later announced that he would keep U. S. concert engagements scheduled for the winter and spring. Last week, however, he cabled his U. S. manager, George Engles...
...Delegates from the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan signed without conning over a document with which all, including Dr. Schacht, were excessively familiar. That made six signatures. The seventh?Belgium's?was not affixed last week. The Belgian delegates huffed and withdrew (TIME, Nov. 18) when Basle, Switzerland, was selected instead of Brussels as the bank site...
...same time that this commission is doing its work for the Union, it was be enlarging and correlating the material now in the College Library. Then first foreign study will be of Switzerland France, Germany, and Italy, in which they will be assisted by Dr Frits Bach man of the University of Berne...