Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announced by Minister Cross were five control points where he proposed to have the British Navy go over questionable cargoes. These were Kirkwall (in the Orkney Islands), Weymouth and the Downs (English ports), Gibraltar and Haifa (Palestine). Neutral vessels bound toward Germany were politely requested to call at these ports, to save trouble all round. To reduce delay, ships were urged to have their papers and cargo manifests drawn up in convenient duplicate for the British officers...
Russia. Biggest neutral, Russia, already indicating her preference by the German-Russian pact, headlined the news of German victories. Field Marshal Goring boasted vaguely of Russia's raw materials. As German troops reached Warsaw, the streets of Moscow suddenly became full of uniforms. Scores of high naval officers were summoned to the Defense Commissariat. Conscription decrees called nearly 1,000,000 men into service. Russia had 3,000,000 under arms...
Italy. Most strategic neutral, Italy was profoundly impressed by Germany's advance ; as the Army reached Warsaw, jeers at Britain filled the Italian press. Although Germany announced that after the Polish victory the Führer would return to Berchtesgaden to have a chat with Italian Ambassador Bernardo Attolico, although the German radio ridiculed attempts to "lure away the Italians from their Teutonic allies," Mussolini...
...eighth day of Germany's advance into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow of long-barreled artillery, to Germans waiting at the radio all over the Reich, to listeners in countries at war with Germany or neutral, Adolf Hitler's second in command came bearing tidings of victory, offers of peace, warnings of struggle, and bad news...
Hard-headed Nazis scarcely expected Britain and France to accept peace offers, hoped rather to maneuver into a position where they would seem, both in German and in neutral eyes, guilty of prolonging war. The first response from London was disquieting. The War Cabinet met, decided: 1) to base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests...