ABSTRACT
In Switzerland, the two most prominent postwar authors, Friedrich Diirrenmatt and Max Frisch, continually used their talents to describe a counteruniverse, an alternative to the hypocrisy masquerading as objectivity. By remaining the focal point of financial transactions, Switzerland guarded the free market of the world, as it appeared to have done against all odds during the war. Claiming special entitlement to another universal value—national sovereignty—Switzerland refused to enter the emerging structure of global bodies like the United Nations. Generally speaking, Switzerland is serving as a curtain for Sweden. The debate on Europe, in other words, was conducted as though Sweden were free to choose not only her trading partners but also her geographical and cultural home. In a policy paper prepared by the US State Department's Western European experts in December 1944, Swiss neutrality was defined as an asset to the Allies.
