-When M. Motto took over the direction of Switzerland's foreign affairs in 1920, he was faced with problems which were entirely new to his country.
Ever since 1870, the tendency had been to withdraw politically from the test of Europe and to have as few-"possible "foreign relations" in the-political sense but at the end of the. World. War, with the adherence, after a referendum, of Switzerland to the newly created League of Nations, this policy clearly became unworkable despite the provisions re-Switzerland's neutrality which had accompanied her adherence to the Covenant, It fell to him, therefore, to build up a Foreign Office, keeping in mind the fact that any Swiss Minister is answerable to three sets of public opinion—those of the French, German and Italian language divisions of the M. Motto was born on December 29, 1871. He was married and had ten children.—Reuter.
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