[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Chris said,
>
> The answer to all those (valid!) complaints
> about barbarism by both "savages" and invaders is to Just Say No to BOTH.
> Switzerland is living proof that this answer is viable.
>
> Cordell suggests,
>
> Switzerland's place of neutrality was assured by saying Yes to all.
> Everybody needed a safe and secure place to do business and by not taking
> sides, Switzerland is living proof that this answer is viable. It only
> works if one country does it while the others make war. Of course the
> mountains helped.
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I seem to have read that Switzerland did indeed preserve
its @#$%neutrality*&^%$ by saying Yes to all, including
sheltering Nazi gold and stolen art. This is not exactly
"neutrality", but rather middle-man opportunism.
I don't think it proves anything, except that
*calculated* self interest sometimes
works out pretty well for the self, when
opportunity presents itself.\
I also seem to have heard that Switzerland's
border was not as "porous" for jews wishing to flee
THe Reich as the jews had hoped for.
Perhaps I am wrong, I have not made this
topic one of my avocations.
\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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