Anti-German sentiment
The Society immediately set forth to prepare and publish several works increasing awareness of the Swiss in the United States. However, due to several factors, including the Great Depression throughout the 1930s, the Society began to decline in membership and activity. By 1937, only 48 due-paying members remained. Anti-German sentiment in the forties did little to help the Society's standing. The Society continued mostly dormant throughout the forties and fifties.