Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands' loud chest-thumping about self-defense (see p. 27), was accompanied by the week's darkest rumor, from Amsterdam: that actually the Dutch, two-faced, have made a deal with the Germans to let them drive across to the Channel ports unopposed...
...trade agreement with Sweden. Coal and textiles ranked high among Sweden's imports from Germany, iron ore and timber were her chief exports to Germany. With coal production in the Saar reduced by France's cannon, and coal deliveries down the Rhine and out of Amsterdam blockaded, Sweden was glad to contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge to Germany from the Norwegian port...