Documents Diplomatiques Suisses. Vol. 22

This is the seventh volume of the post-war series of the Documents Diplomatiques Suisses, the Swiss equivalent of the Documents on British Policy Overseas or the Foreign Relations of the United States series. It covers the period between 1 July 1961 and 31 December 1963, which witnessed a further escalation of the Cold War and the inauguration of a new era in Swiss foreign policy under the stewardship of Friedrich Traugott Wahlen. A member of the now defunct Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents, he enjoyed great popularity for increasing Switzerland’s self-sufficiency in food supplies during the Second World War, and had, as an agronomist, gained high-level international experience within the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. This, together with his previous government service, provided him with the necessary political weight to succeed the liberal Max Petitpierre, who had shaped Switzerland’s foreign relations for sixteen years, in the Federal Political

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