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672:. As a consequence of his experience and effectiveness at the UNHCR, he was given full control and responsibility for all aid operations, acting fully independently yet in the name of the ICRC. Initially deemed a great success including delivering nightly flights of relief supplies, ultimately there was culture clash between Lindt and the agency. ICRC felt Lindt excluded them from important decision making and was sometimes too radical in his methods, even driven by an obvious desire for effectiveness. His resolve to treat the Nigerian government and the Biafan authorities on an equal footing caused further widespread friction. Even though this and his strong enterprising personality was finally seen as being overall beneficial to the operation, it also contributed to an unfortunate hardening of the Nigerian government's attitude to the ICRC. As a result of this and other external factors, in the end, Lindt was arrested and expelled by the Nigerian government in 1969. The Nigerian discontent became focused on the personality of Lindt, described by some in the government as being too authoritarian and arrogant. This resulted in a lesson for the ICRC and other similar agencies which was the risk of associating an operation with a single individual. However, for Nigerian-Biafra the lesson came too late, and the ICRC were stripped of their role as operations controller in June 1969. 572:

a German-speaking majority in the face of Aryan propaganda and Nazi aggression. Heer und Haus provided entertainment and sporting activities for soldiers and shows and festivals for civilians. Most importantly, there were weekly public lectures on the war, including the current military situation and the ongoing will to fight. Lecturers stated clearly that Hitler was the enemy and left people who attended the lectures to spread the word. In this way, an entire communications network pervaded the country completely free of the national press censorship. This was done in the full knowledge that anything written or published would be seized on by the Germans as a violation of Swiss-declared neutrality and justification in their eyes for an invasion.

522:, the commander of the Swiss army. He informed them of the group's true motivations and objectives. This directly led to the prisoners' sentences being reduced, and ultimately all were pardoned and reinstated to their previous positions. In an extraordinary final move, members of the group were given direct unfettered access to General Guisan, in spite of repeated calls for their dismissal from the Federal President Pilet-Golaz. As the officers' objectives were broadly in line with the majority of political and civilian opinion at the time, it has been questioned by historian Willi Gautschi whether the term 1340: 492:

formulated a plan to, if necessary, take control of the army, ensuring it would continue to fight even if the government and the army leadership capitulated. They drew up a manifesto at the meeting which called for unconditional armed resistance and the renewal of Switzerland based on the following basic principles: military comradeship and discipline, the federal principle of democracy, the unconditional respect for the individual and the family, and the rejection of a totalitarian state.

644:. The Year sought to encourage UN member states to continue to focus on the refugee problem, make additional financial contributions and to develop further humanitarian solutions for refugee settlement. It began in June 1959 with 52 countries participating, increasing to 72 countries and 6 territories by the end of 1959. However, clearing Europe's Camps of Misery took longer than many, including Lindt, had hoped and was not fully achieved until the mid-sixties. 31: 571:

and Lindt, using his background in journalism. The division was Switzerland's most important tool in building and strengthening the morale to defend and resist among the Swiss army and civilian population. It did this by developing and maintaining the bond of Swissness across a nation which included

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The UNHCR under Lindt also began to take greater responsibility for refugees in the developing world and to de facto widen the UNHCR's refugee definition. Consequently, it received more recognition and support from governments such as the United States and Soviet Union for the role it could play in

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Between 1932 and 1939, Lindt was based in London working as a foreign correspondent for Swiss, German and British newspapers. His work took him to Manchuria, Liberia, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Romania. During the winter of 1939–1940, he was a war correspondent with Finnish forces

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were children under 14. In addition to the camps in Europe, there were tens of thousands more people displaced as a result of the war in China and the Middle East. This was the most serious and embarrassing residual social and humanitarian problem of the Second World War. The worldwide publicity

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invasion. This and other government broadcasts also appeared to reflect a growing impatience from conservatives with the slowness of the Swiss system and their desire for a more authoritarian style of government. Consequently, Corporal Lindt together with several officers gathered in secret and

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As a result of Lindt's strong personality, his independence and extensive international experience, he is regarded as one of Switzerland's most important figures of the 20th century. His career, which extended far beyond mere diplomacy, was closely linked to contemporary Swiss and international

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Switzerland's humanitarian tradition was not always official policy, but it often grew out of resistance. Lindt managed to combine the two. His views were not always well received. For example, several Swiss politicians were outraged that, as a Swiss representative at the UN's International

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formally gave the UNHCR and Lindt a wider and more flexible role to address existing 'old' refugee problems but also 'new' current ones, and no longer just in Europe but worldwide. Finally, they gave his office due for redundancy the following year another five years.

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and its intentions accidentally got out, and several members were arrested and imprisoned, initially suspected of being part of a defeatist organization and for high treason. Lindt, who had escaped arrest, made a direct appeal on the group's behalf to politician

624:. These emerged alongside the High Commission's principal objective of resettling the 70,000 displaced people still living in 200 refugee camps across Europe following the war. Twenty-five per cent of the population of these 575:

Immediately after the war, Lindt made his first move into humanitarian work. He took part in organizing the Swiss donation for the benefit of shattered Europe and went to a devastated Berlin as a delegate for the

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Between 1928 and 1930, Lindt worked in banks in Paris and London, something he later said himself he was not at all suited, making numerous embarrassing mistakes and costing his employers dearly.

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as an objective of the group is really appropriate. Many members, including Lindt, continued to form and be part of other secret resistance groups protecting the principal of Switzerland's

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The international satisfaction at the UNHCR and Lindt's pragmatic approach to the Hungarian crisis led to an outbreak of goodwill which was built upon with the declaration of 1959–1960 as

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In 1987 he publicly campaigned against what he saw as the dismantling of the right to asylum, and in later life he warned against a hardening of political attitudes towards real refugees.

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In 1968 Lindt was seconded by the Swiss government to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) following their request for him to act as their commissioner-general during the

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aid operation, he reported the Bührle company's arms deliveries to Nigeria to the Swiss Federal Council, which later led to the so-called Bührle scandal.

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In his time as High Commissioner, Lindt and his office faced several international refugee crises, including large scale exoduses caused by the

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In 1940, following the fall of much of Europe, including France and the Netherlands, an ambiguous radio address by Swiss Federal President

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was taken by many as signalling a potential weakening of the government and army's resolve in the face of what appeared to be an imminent

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Lindt joined the Swiss horse mounted cavalry as a corporal before in 1941 joining Swiss military intelligence for the rest of the war.

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Conference on Human Rights in 1968, he morally condemned the apartheid system. As Commissioner General of the ICRC for the

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history. His life was shaped by his moral courage and his commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights. The newspaper

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Upon his return to the Swiss Diplomatic Service Lindt was then appointed Swiss Ambassador to Mongolia, India and Nepal.

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given the Hungarians drew international attention to the shameful conditions these stateless people were living.

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Lindt served as the ambassador of Switzerland to the United States from 1960 to 1962 in Washington during the

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Whilst in England he met and married his second wife, Susannah Dunsterville, while she was a member of the

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Between 1971 and 1977 Lindt was President of the Swiss international children's charity, known today as

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His third marriage was to Ileana Maria Pociovălişteanu Bulova, widow of Arde Bulova, Chairman of the

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with a dissertation on Soviet corporate law. Later in life he received honorary doctorates from the

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In 1946 Lindt was appointed press and culture attaché posted to the Swiss embassy in London.

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From 1941 to the end of the war, Lindt was head of the Civil Reconnaissance Service in the

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division of the Swiss Army Command. Heer und Haus was conceived by intelligence operative

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