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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (236842)	7/18/2007 2:56:25 AM
From: c.hinton	Respond to of 281500

Nadine you are right on that. ps i found this tid bit while looking for a reply to prove me right. Officially, Switzerland stayed out of World War I. In practice, the army had been “thoroughly Prussianized”, as Jonathan Steinberg puts it, and its commanders saw no reason not to support Germany. As soon as war broke out in the summer of 1914, Switzerland began passing military intelligence to Berlin. The mood within the country soured, as German and French Swiss retreated from each other, both backing opposite sides in the war. In an echo of the trenches of northern France, a Graben, or trench, opened up along the language border between the two. French Swiss were increasingly outraged by their army’s pro-German bias, and in 1917 the Swiss foreign minister was forced to resign after secretly trying to negotiate a European peace between Germany and the new revolutionary regime in Russia. switzerland.isyours.com