Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finnish General Hjalmar Siilasvuo, with five divisions, began a drive from the south, slowly pushed the Germans back. With their direct route to Germany cut off, the Nazis could retreat into Norway or into neutral Sweden. But there was no question of peaceful surrender to the Finns, as the armistice framers seemed to expect-few Germans would willingly follow the road to a Russian prison camp...
...labor newspapers surveyed by the Federated Press, 117 were for Roosevelt, 19 were neutral; only one, the independent Central Labor Journal of Salina, Kans., was actively for Dewey. But the Pittsburgh Courier, largest U.S. Negro newspaper, came out for Dewey. Of the Negro press's two other "big three," the Baltimore Afro-American appeared to be leaning toward Dewey, while the Chicago Defender was still ardently pro-Roosevelt...
...Editor & Publisher, in a nationwide survey of daily newspaper preferences, discovered: 57.9% for Dewey; 20.6% for Roosevelt; 21.5% undecided. In 1940, U.S. dailies were 66.3% for Willkie; 20.1% for Roosevelt; 13.5% neutral...
Bulgars Squirm. The Bulgars had asked the Anglo-Americans for terms-terms that would let them remain neutral, keep their German-given gains in Greece and Yugoslavia, protect German soldiers and weapons still in Bulgaria. But Moscow growled: "Bulgarian ruse . . . false maneuvers . . . subterfuge and secret connivance with the Germans! . . ." Down crashed the government of artful Prime Minister Ivan Bagrianoff. To the helm in Sofia went a Russophile cabinet headed by a leftist Peasant leader, Constantine Muraviev...
King Leopold III of the Belgians, since 1940 a Nazi prisoner, was reported reunited with his children in Bavaria. From neutral sources came a picture of the royal offspring, taken while they were still happily grouped on the grounds of the Palace of Laeken in Brussels (Josephine Charlotte, 16; Albert, 10; Alexandre Emmanuel, 2-Leopold's only child by his second wife, Marie; Crown Prince Baudouin...