Detroit evening times., 1945-01-22

Of American and British citi-
zens and interests, including In
termed prisoners.
For some time we have not
been able 20 get the sums from
America or England TO cover
those advances.
switzerland has been for
centuries the keystone of lih-
ertY. democracy, neutrality,
sanity and law and order in
turbulent Europe.
Had NaZi Germany and Fas-
CiSt Italy won the war our in
dependence -As-a-de democracy
would have been gone.
And we'll we know that
Switzerland, situated like an is
land in the very middle OF the
surging and rising red sea of
communism, will lose It's demo-
catic independence and freedom
II Germany, Italy, France and
Austria turn communistic and
move into the political and ecO-
nOmic orbit of Soviet Russia.
SWISS FEEL HURT
III the present trend in
Europe continues a ma aioritY Of
the Swiss people are convinced
that such development is com
ing, unless checked. and we
cannot see who has the will or
the power to check it"
My informants said that what
had hurt the Swiss people par
ticularly and aroused their in
dignation, were charges in GER
tain American newspapers that
Switzerland and the Swiss gov
ernment are Fascist.
They pointed out that the Swiss
representative government and
democracy was founded in 1915. a
few years after Columbus discov-
cred America.
THOROUGHLY DEMOCRATIC
Like the 13 American colonies
$50 years later, in IT'S, the Swiss
government began with Is cantons
or states.
With its sytem of consulting the
Swiss people on important Ques-
tionS through plebiscites, and with
the refere d u m for recalled
elected representatives or officials,
Switzerland is probably the most
democratically governed country
in the world.
Switzerland has had no diplo-
matte relations with Russia since
the end of the first World War in
1918. Switzerland was the sane
tuary and safe home in exile of
Lenin, father Of the Russian revo-
luton and the present Sovie I
rommuniStic system and regime.
GERMANY PLANTED REDS
Hard pressed upon all fronts,
Germany hit upon the idea in 1917
TO transport Lenin and his associ-
ates from Switzerland to the Rus
sian border in sealed train, there
TO plant the seeds of the Bolshevik
revolution. which brought about
the collapse of czarist Russia and
the separate peace of the Lenin-
Trotsky-Stalin regime with Russia
and the assassination Of the Rus
sian imperial Romanoff family
My sources said that the Swiss
government. al the beginning of
the war, suppressed both Comnu-
MIST and Nazi-Fascist parties and
in Switzerland in order
to insure strict neutrality.
OFFER TO RUSSIA
They still are illegal.
Some weeks ago, responding 70
internal pressure and Communist
agitation and in effect recognizing
the ever-growing power of totali-
tartan Communist Russia and fore
seeing its diplomacy on the conti-
lent, the Swiss government offered
10 take up diplomatic relations
with Moscow.
The Krcmlin fatty refused.
Communist organs of the Mos
cow government charged that the
Swiss government was Fascist.
The Swiss, said my sources, had
unofficially been informed that not
even a Swiss Socialist government
would be satisfactory TO Stain,
that il must he Communist or at
least controlled by Communists
About 80 per cent Of the
Swiss people are imperialist or
socialist inclined but the over
whelming majority are anti
Communist" declared one of my
informants.
When asked what impression
Senator Vandenberg's plan hsC
made in Switzerland, he answered
with a paraphrase from Clemen'
ceau:
What collaboration of high
mindnesS will 10 not take 10
evolve an Improvement In hui
manity essential 20 attaining
such a goal?"
He said that while the Swiss
still pinned their fading hopes or
England and America, there was
a growing feeling that IL was eX'
tremely difficult, if not almost i'm.
possible, for Americans 10 graST
The grim actualties and realities
OEthc complex racial idcolog
Political social and economic Situ
alton in Europe which historically
has developed through the cen
turleS from causative origins 81
entirely different than found II
America.