UNDER THE ALPS
A SHORT HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND, by E. Bonjour, H. S. Offler and G. R: Potter; Oxtord University Press. English price, 35/-. N Switzerland women have no vote, conservatism is characteristic, heraldry seems to be a national passion, independence is more real than in most countries, compulsory military training is apparently regarded as a right and not a duty, international banking is highly developed, and neutrality has become a vested interest, In the Alps tourists are entertained and hydro-electricity produced; in the band. of hill country, stretching from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance, industrious. people-400 to the square mileuse skill and imported raw materials to make a multitude of desirable factory goods, ranging from microscopes to’ locomotives; in the Jura are the’ crafts--lacemakers, clockmakers, silk weavers,
paper makers, embroiderers; in the seductive heat of the Ticino grow maize and figs and almonds. ~ _ How all this came about is not very well known to us, for most of the authorities have written in German. This book now tells us the reasons-from Celtic and Roman times to the Nazis and the International Red Cross. Up to 1789 the story is fresh and stimulating. The modern section is dull and lacking in analysis. However, the results of recent research contained in the book are themselves sufficient to make it a valu--able addition to the historian’s library. |
W. B.
Sutch
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 12
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228UNDER THE ALPS New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 12
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