[2][3][4] Upon taking office in 1945, the cabinet was faced with the challenge of dealing with the members of the First Russian National Army that had taken refuge in the country a few months prior.

[6] Eventually the government of Argentina offered the Russians asylum, and about a hundred people left.

[6] In 1949, the government oversaw Liechtenstein ceding the Ellhorn mountain to Switzerland as a result of Swiss demands and threats to, among other things, cease end the customs union between the two countries.

Despite the local community in Balzers previously refusing to do so in November 1948, the transfer was approved by the Landtag of Liechtenstein the following month.

In exchange to the transfer, Switzerland agreed to forgive much of Liechtenstein's debt that it had acquired to the country throughout World War II.