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SWITZERLAND HAS PREPARED FOR

A BLITZ-DEFENCE

WENT to south-eastern · Europe on tho↑ but the "nation" is composed of Germans, day that Germany invaded the two Italians and Frenchmen, with the Germans small neutral and democratic countries of in the large majority. Denmark and Norway. I arrived in Zurich on the day that Mr. Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that the British and French forces were obliged to with- draw from southern Norway,

In the debate that followed in the House Sir Archibald Sinclair warned that this loss of prestige would mean that all small

States would

to hasten to come neutral

terms with Germany.

The other day a test mobilisation Was held in a neighbouring conton. At 10 a.m.. the order was handed to the local authori- tios. At 10.10 every church bell in the can- fon rang,' Clerks left their desks instan- taneously, farmers left their fields, and at exactly 12 noon every man was uniformed, armed and at his place.

No country can mobilise faster than this one, where the greatest amount of author-

Within a few hours I had visible exper-ity is delegated to the individual, lence of the reaction of Switzerland,

"WE KNOW THE ENEMY" "But haven't you your Henleins, and your The beautiful-and' empty-Hotel Baur- au-Lac lies on the Lake of Zurich in the Quislings?" It is a natural question to ask midst of that handsome town, and is front-in a country whose longest frontier is on Germany, where the majority of the people

ed by gardens and pavilions. On the even- ing of the debate in the House of Commons I walked part-way around this lake, notle- Ing the green-painted benches conveniently set at every few yards. The next morning I went out again and the benches had dis- appeared. In their place was a neatly. made entanglement of barbed wire.

VOLUNTARY DISCIPLINE

This is the country that took the peace of Munich as the signal for war preparations. Every victory for Germany strengthens its spirit and intensifies the war preparations.

Switzerland is the world's oldest demo- cracy. I am now convinced that it is also the world's best democracy. For years de mocracy has been almost a synonym for weakness, slowness, lack of realism, laxness and softness. Denmark, a highly civilised country, has found for years that ments were too costly. She and all the to Scandinavian countries have preferred. spend money for education and social wel- tare.

arma-

-By-

Dorothy Thompson

belong to the German race; one which has the highest proportion of resident foreigners of any country in Europe, and where lan- guage forms no barrier to political penetra- tion over a large part of the State..

**Of course we have them," is the prompt answer. "All countries have a few poten- and tial traitors, some who are corrupt some who are fanaticą), but our authorities know who they are."

"Why don't you expel them?" "Some

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Swiss citizens, and why Switzerland loves and cultivates the arts | should we expel spies whom we know? New of peace, no less than they, and has not ones would come. But we have other means

We war since the days of of dealing with them.

have learned been involved in Napoleon. But Switzerland is a democracy something from other countries." that is as hard as her stony Alps. The most "What will you do?” tolerant country on earth, composed of all the three main races, nations and languages of Europe, and without even a common speech, "decentralised down to the last vil- lage, practising still in some of her cantons the direct political democracy which was the ideal of Thomas Jefferson, this coun“ try flies together in time of danger as one man, produces a voluntary discipline which the most rigidly organised dictatorship can- not but admire,. accepts with wide open eyes terrific burdens, prepares for every emergency down to the last child, and turns towards the neighbouring Gollath the glar-say-it in German, as well as in French. ing eye of David,

Whoever may invade Switzerland will have to fight their way yard by yard. Swit- zerland, having taken stock of the techni- que of the. Blitz-war, has prepared for a Blitz-defence. She has prepared in all fields -military, social and political. She knows how she will oppose military invaders and what she will do with Quislings and traitors, The highest degree of individualism is com- bined with the highest degree of organisa- tion.

Switzerland is in time of crisis a totalitar- lan democracy. That seems to be a con- tradiction in terms but it is not. She is a democracy in which every free man has agreed upon and knows what he must do at a given moment to defend his own freedom; and the freedom of his country,

EVERY MAN A SOLDIER

The army of Switzerland is the male po- pulation of Switzerland. That is precisely the fact. Every man between the ages of 20 and 48 is mobilised. Every boy between the ages of 18 and 20 ̈and every man be- tween the ages of 48 and 60 belongs to the reservo.

And yet in Switzerland one has the im- pression of peace and civilian life. Ex- cept at the borders, where the watch is constant, one sees few uniforms-in con- trast to the rest of Europe, "neutral" or not, where the swarms of soldiers create the impression that the notion is at war,

That is because the barracks of the Swiss soldier is his own home. His uniform hangs in his closest; his rifle and bayonet are oll- ed and ready, and he has had 60 rounds of ammunition distributed to him. This is the only country in the world which can trust every one of its citizens to be his own arsenal. And this is the more impressive because there is no Swiss nation, There is a Swiss State and a Swiss Confederation,

"The order has gone out if anyone caught sabotaging in time of war any Swiss soldier has the duty to shoot him without further orders. If the radio or the Press announces that the Government has resign- ed and a new Government.been set, up we are to disregard it and continue to fight."

In the last war, during which Switzerland was also continually on the alert, cleft sym- pathies separated the French and German cantons. There is not even the apprehen- sion of division now. "We know this time who the enemy is," say the Swiss.” They

Not only are the men mobilised-500,000 in a nation of 4,000,000, not counting the reserves-but the whole country is crossed and criss-crossed with a network of defences.

·God is good to Switzerland. The craggy mountain peaks are her first defences, and they are also to a large part her munition store-houses. Hidden in the caves and cre- vices of the rocks which do not need to be

of camouflaged are stores

arms. Other arms are stored in the most insouciant way -in little houses built of pink or white or blue plaster, just like other little houses. At every few hundred feet on the main.

boards roads one sees checker

of neat squares. Each of these is a trapdoor. Lift it and an emplacement is underneath, in which, in a jiffy, a forest of steel barriers. can be placed.

OATH OF THE CITIZENS

Along the roads are immense posts, each with neat rows of barbed wire at hand, with cement tank defences in the neighbour- ing flelds, Mines are at hand for 'every river; every lake is defended in case an attempt is made to land on their glassy sur- faces with amphibian 'planes.

But, above all, every citizen knows what to do. He does not consider himself quite like the citizens of other countries, From boyhood he has been trained for citizenship in the democracy. He is accustomed being consulted and accustomed to being given, and being prepared to take, indivi- dual responsibility.

to

He not only belongs to a country; he be- longs to the "Comradeship of the Oath," which is the German translation of the name of the Swiss Republic-the. “Eidgenos- senschaft." Switzerland was created by a pact made between free men never to bend

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By George McManus

Bringing Up Father

BY GOLLY-THAT WUZ NICE OF SENATOR LOWDEN RUFF TO, TAKE ME TO SEE THE U.S. MINT- 1 MUST TELL MAGGIE

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