Lucerne, July 6 Switzerland will offer determin-resistance to any attempt use her land for military purposes, M. Georges Motto, Chief of the Department of Political - Affairs, declared—today In a speech at Sempach commemorating the 880th anniversary of the Swiss victory there over the Austrian forces.
"Sthe present international situation," Mf. Motto declared, "is our Dlackest care. There is no gleam of peace in the skies.... Treaties, even those freely signed, are observed no more. Democracy, which is "the noblest form of political organizations, is scorned *... Foreign military. staffs," "he emarked, after elaborating on the threats to peace, "must know that any attempt to violate our territory and to use our country for strategical purposes meet stout and dogged Swiss re-
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