Preparedness

Hearings before the National Defense Committee as to how Switzerland can best defend herself brought to light last week Striking facts and proposals:

P:Zurich already has a four-story, subterranean retreat into which officials can dive at a moment's notice. To avoid confusion as to what is the right way to number the floors' of a building underground, each floor has been given, not a number, but a color. The shelter has a 1,000-gallon water supply, a phonograph "well-stocked with records of comforting melodies."

P:Mountains in central Switzerland have already been deeply tunneled with caches of war supplies.

P:A member of Parliament urged the committee that munitions could be safer tucked away not in the mountains but in large tanks lowered to the bottom of the famed Swiss lakes, such as Geneva which is 1,000 feet deep.

P:Another Deputy proposed that since France is the firm and potent friend of Switzerland, the safest place for war supplies would be in depots close to the French frontier.

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