MBER 6, 1939.
INDEPENDENCE Firmly Resisted
ny and Italy.
There is a special frontier force with the "Landwehr” and then with Germany has | (“Grenzschutz"), a kind of standing the "Landsturm” until the age of gions and built volunteer army, which is permanent-sixty, Switzerland can put half a mil- zerland, there-ly under arms. Its purpose is to lion men in the field. The Army is or- ith a German-absorb the first impact of an invasion | ganised in three corps of three divi- ement if in the and gain the brief space of time that | sions each. Besides these nine divisions ar, the German will be needed to carry out the mili- there are three Alpine divisions which. d to attack the tary, technical, and industrial mobili- | are specially equipped and trained for
through Dutch | sation of the whole country. All obser- mountain warfare. hrough Swiss vers agree as to the high standard of Swiss military efficiency. Swiss war Maginot Line." | material is as good as any in the g which resem-world. The Swiss soldier is disciplin- nces that formed, hardy, skilful, enterprising, and n Germany and fervently patriotic. He is eminently
Swiss system suited for the elastic defence contem- | A further 50,000,000 francs were voted
greatest elasti- "tank-traps," ongly fortifie ountain, valley, Service with the colours begins at he Swiss Army the age of twenty, when the recruit stroying roads, undergoes a training of four months. as it goes, and For a period of twelve years he is a 3 by rearguard | "first line" soldier and undergoes gout frequent four weeks' training each year as well behind strong- as a certain amount of rifle practice ven now whole (when he is not with the colours he be "shot up" keeps his rifle in his home and is se the enemy ready to use it at a moment's notice). prise invasion.
After the age of forty-two he serves
plated by the Swiss General Staff--a defence that will demand the greatest personal courage and initiative.
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last three years the Swiss-who, after all, number only 4,000,000-have voted the gigantic sum of 1,000,000,000 Swiss francs for de- fence (a sum that does not include the large subsidies to Swiss war industry).
for the expansion of the Swiss Air Force. (Foreign models are now being bullt under licence.) The Swiss are, of course, fully aware that they cannot resist Germany single-handed. The main purpose of their strategy is to gain a maximum of time until help arrives from the Western Powers.
NEUTRALITY AND FRIENDSHIPS
Their neutrality is based on the treaties of 1815, especially the Act of November 20 of that year. It was reaffirmed in article 435 of the Treaty of Versailles. According to the Swiss conception foreign armed help is to be given only after it has been in- | voked by the Swiss Government. Ger- many has attempted to obtain from Switzerland an interpretation of the term "neutrality" which the Swiss re- gard as incompatible with the liberty. of the subject. According to the Ger- man thesis, not only must Switzerland observe neutrality by remaining aloof from all alliances, she must also im- pose of neutral attitude on every one of her subjects. That is to say, every subject must in his writing, his speech, and his actions refrain from showing hostility to a foreign Power. This con- ception of "neutrality" has been re- pudiated by the the Swiss-its pur- pose was, of course, to silence criti- cism of Germany. The Swiss news- papers report German affairs with ob- jectivity and without fear-the great 'Neue Zurcher Zeitung," for example, is altogether admirable for the acTM curacy and abundance of its informa- tion and for the illuminating charac- ter of its comments. on German affairs. During the Great War Swiss public opinion was mainly with the Allied Powers, though Germany had her Swiss friends,, amongst whom were many well-known publicists, especial- ly in the German-speaking cantons. To-day Swiss public opinion is fer- vently pro-French. and pro-British (above, all pro-British). The ordinary German visitor to Switzerland can count on unfailing courtesy. English visitors can count on much more. The traditional friendship between Swit- zerland and Great Britain has been powerfully reinforced b ythe sense of common danger.
The character of the Swiss has never shown to greater advantage than now. The Zurich Exhibition, which was opened in the spring, is typical of that character. The architecture is homely and unpretentious and yet cheerful and beautifully proportioned. The ex- hibits show a certain modesty, a kind of "bourgeois" downrightness, and the highest quality of workmanship. In a world menaced by barbarism the Zurich Exhibition, emblem of Swit- zerland, is also an emblem of the de- cencies and refinements of European civilisation. ·
HERTZOG RESIGNS
Capetown, To-day. General Hertzog announc-| ed in the Assembly yesterday that a proclamation would be issued to-day proroguing Parliament.
General Hertzog has resigned, and General Smuts is forming a new Ministry.
It is generally understood that the new Government will proclaim mar- tial law to-day-Reuter, st
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