On 3 August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I which pitted Austria-Hungary against the Russian empire, Trotsky was forced to flee Vienna for neutral Switzerland to avoid arrest as a Russian émigré.

It united the remaining international socialist anti-war movement, whose more prominent leaders were Vladimir Lenin, Grigory Zinoviev and Leon Trotsky from Russia, Robert Grimm from Switzerland, and Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht from Germany.

He briefly travelled to Russia in July 1914 to collect research materials for his dance cantata Les noces before returning to Switzerland, just before the national borders closed following the outbreak of World War I.

The period following this was marked by unemployment and poverty, with Proudhon travelling around France ( and also, briefly, to Neufchâtel, Switzerland ) where he unsuccessfully sought stable employment in printing and as a schoolteacher.

In 1905 he briefly returned to Switzerland to marry Lilly Selma Wehrli.

Begins in New York City, moves briefly to Mexico, then to Italy, and finally it ends in Switzerland, during the year 1938.

At that point, Sweden briefly took the lead away from Germany ( who received no points from Switzerland ).

He traveled briefly to the United States in 1947 before settling in Switzerland, where he lived the rest of his life.

He briefly attended schools in Switzerland and Britain, and later studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, a member of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, an editor of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon ( Alpha chapter ).

During his exile in Switzerland, Lenin stayed briefly in Ecublens several times.

They returned briefly to Switzerland to close out their apartment and returned to California.

He briefly returned to the national side team for several Euro qualifiers in late 1991 but got injured against Switzerland and finally, in 1992 after scoring 14 goals in 38 caps, permanently retired from the national team.

In the summer of 1999, she went to the U. S. and was briefly coached by Galina Zmievskaya but tore knee ligaments and returned to Switzerland for treatment.

After spending time around France and briefly in Switzerland he returned to England in early 1766, not leaving to continue his grand tour until December.

He worked briefly for the Red Cross in Berlin, then, in 1916, moved to Basle, Switzerland.

The village extends along the mouth of the River Mentue, briefly before its delta into Lake Neuchâtel, in northern French speaking Switzerland.

James was educated briefly at Eton, and then at Le Rosey in Switzerland, then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton.

Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany, briefly serving as a department head at the Krupp Works in Essen from 1916 to 1918.

After leaving the Senate at the end of his term in 1975, he was appointed Ambassador to Switzerland by President Gerald Ford, but served only briefly.

With a grant from Les Dames d ' Escoffier, she worked in bakeries and restaurants in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France.

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

After the outbreak of World War I Radek moved to Switzerland where he worked as a liaison between Lenin and the Bremen Left, with which he had close links from his time in Germany, introducing him to Paul Levi at this time.

During these four years in Switzerland, he worked on theoretical architectural studies using modern techniques.

" She worked part-time to earn enough money to travel to France and Switzerland before she went on to attend the eighth World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki, Finland.

His father, Claude-François Proudhon who worked as a brewer and a cooper, was originally from the village of Chasnans, near the border with Switzerland.

As a result of peace accords worked out at the Geneva Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Vietnam was divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel as a temporary measure until unifying elections could take place in 1956.

Immediately following his service in the war, he worked in the French diplomatic service in Bulgaria and Switzerland., ultimately becoming the secretary of the French Delegation to the United Nations in New York, in 1952.

Apart from short visits to England in 1937-1938 ( at the invitation of the Penrose Annual ), and 1947-1949 ( at the invitation of Ruari McLean, the British typographer, with whom he worked on the design of Penguin Books ), he lived the rest of his life in Switzerland.

Oberth was allowed to leave Nurmberg to move to Switzerland in 1948, where he worked as an independent rocketry consultant and a writer.

Manning transported water via donkey, worked as a mason's assistant and a dishwasher in France, was imprisoned ( by choice ) in Switzerland, and spent six months in a remote cave somewhere in the Zaragoza desert.

He moved first to Switzerland, then the United States, and finally to Cambridge in England, where he worked on an archive of non-European folk music recordings.

Thomas Haniford, and Michael Doyle probably worked for that same railroad, and Eustius Gall, born in Switzerland, was an engineer.

She also worked as a ski representative in Switzerland and spent a year travelling and working in Australia.

He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health.

As cover, he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as first secretary to the United Kingdom mission to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Six months later, Haarmann escaped and fled to Switzerland, where he worked for two years before he returned to Germany.

The company had approximately 27, 611 employees, of which 19, 355 worked in Switzerland and the remaining 8, 256 employees were outside Switzerland.

Between 1958 and 1972 he worked in several missions, including Egypt ’ s Embassy in Switzerland and the Egyptian mission to the United Nations.

Committees of the Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace worked in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, France, England, Portugal, Brazil, Columbia, Uruguay, Bolivia and Cuba.

After getting his doctorate in law in 1926, he worked in his father's office and later headed it until he was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland.

For this reason, he was dismissed from government service after the Nazi takeover in 1933 and had to escape to Austria, and from there, in 1934, to Switzerland, where he worked as a free lance writer.

After a conventional schooling supplemented by travel in Switzerland and France, he worked for some years as a civil servant in the British War office.