Switzerland's neutrality is guaranteed by the Treaty of Vienna by which a new Constitution was set up under the protection of the Powers of which Germany was one. Is that why Switzerland escaped invasion by German armies? M. Paul Balmer, a Geneva lawyer, writing in the "Journat" says emphatically that it was not. He records the following statements made to him by a German officer of high rank.
"It was merely," declared the officer, "by a majority of two votes that the German Military Staff decided to pass through Belgium and not through Swituer-
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