Erich Mettler
 Erich Mettler  (journalist, editor) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1917 | |||||||||||||
| Died | 1980 (Age 63) | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Swiss | |||||||||||||
Swiss correspondent and NZZ foreign editor who attended 1973 Bilderberg.
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Eric Mettler was a journalist and foreign desk editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung[1][2] who attended 1973 Bilderberg.
Career
Mettler started working as a freelancer in the NZZ foreign editorial office in 1944. After the end of the war, he was a correspondent in Rome and London, traveled to Palestine and the African continent, to the USA, the Soviet Union, India, Southeast Asia, China and Japan. Mettler was an international generalist who was credited with great analytical skills. "As an undisputed authority", he had taken over the management of the foreign editorial office in 1968 and became deputy editor-in-chief.[3]
Close to US positions
Mettler strongly supported the US military intervention in Vietnam.[4]
The NZZ under Mettler was close to the US position regarding installing authoritarian governments when elections threatened to bring Communists to power. Eric Mettler summarized this with a view mostly on East Asia:
- Some states of the third world of the post-colonial era are obviously more effectively run by open-minded authoritarian realists of the center for the benefit of all participants than by disunited "democrats" and tyrannical "People's Democrats". ... People around the world are too different in their ways to allow themselves to be fitted in the one-size-fits-all the Western capitalist and liberal-democratic mold - let alone by the soul–destroying communist one.[5]
Mettler "had good relations" with El Al, the Israeli airline, and was able to secure a correspondent a place with Israeli reservists flying from Switzerland during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The correspondent susequently gave a very pro-Israeli account of the war[6].
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1973 | 11 May 1973 | 13 May 1973 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned. |
References
- ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/die-spezielle-beziehung-zwischen-dem-balkan-und-der-schweiz-ld.1397927?reduced=true
- ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/christian-kind-gestorben-ld.836297?reduced=true
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20181130173755/https://www.dodis.ch/res/doc/QdD-Bd8.PDF
- ↑ NZZ, Dezember 1969; Mettler, Puls, 1981, S. 182. quoted in http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/11676/1/Maissen_2005_Geschichte_der_NZZ.pdf page 184
- ↑ March 1978; Mettler, Puls, 1981, S. 291 f. - quoted in http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/11676/1/Maissen_2005_Geschichte_der_NZZ.pdf page 188
- ↑ https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=sol-004%3A2016%3A91%3A%3A1083
