Monday, Apr. 28, 1941
Germany Loses
With 40,000 spectators shouting, and every radio in Switzerland tuned in, the all-star Swiss soccer team last week beat the German national eleven in Berne's municipal stadium, 2-to-1. An Italian refereed. No trouble occurred. While 6,000 Nazis chorused the German national anthem and the Horst Wessel Lied, 34,000 Swiss stood respectfully quiet. Then they broke--in French, German, Italian--into the Swiss Rufst du Mein Vaterland, which goes to the same tune as God Save the King. Here and there a tall, pale-eyed individual intoned the words of Britain's national anthem. Two Americans sang My Country 'Tis of Thee.
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