Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wine and liquors easily added another $100 to the bill. British whiskey and gin were $40 a bottle. Good brands of British cigarets were $22 for 50. Food was plentiful and good for those who had the price. The Germans ordered an end of that, too, demanded rationing for neutral Monagasoues. The Government of Prince Louis II acceded...
...little unescorted merchant ship and flew to Sweden in the bombbay of a disarmed British Mosquito bomber that can carry only one passenger and flies only on moonless nights to lessen the chances of being shot down. His listening post is one of two we have set up in neutral European countries to get the truth out of Festung Euro pa and into the pages of TIME. The other is in Switzerland − and very soon I hope to be able to bring you word of still a third TIME office right under Hitler's nose...
This time the Allied allegations were flatly denied by the highest Roman Catholic sources. In Washington, the Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,* Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. since 1933, stated, on instructions of Cardinal Maglione, that "no German soldier has been admitted within the borders of the neutral pontifical villa." The National Catholic Welfare Conference then issued a statement that Castel Gandolfo was filled with 15,000 Italian refugees, "several hundred" of whom had been killed in recent Allied bombings...
...jungle conditions without adequate shelter, clothing, food or medical attention . . . building railways and making roads . . . their health is rapidly deteriorating . . . there have been some thousands of deaths. The number of deaths reported by the Japanese to us is just over 100. . . . The refusal of the Japanese Government to permit neutral inspection of camps in the southern area is difficult to understand in view of the fact that they have allowed visits by neutral inspectors ... in the northern area comprising Hong Kong, Formosa, Shanghai, Korea and Japan itself. The British Government are reasonably satisfied that conditions generally in this area...
Darnand has even tried to extend his long arm to neutral Sweden. He asked Vichy's Chargé d'Affairs in Stockholm to report the names of all French prisoners of war who have escaped from Germany to Sweden and express anti-Vichy views. Penalty: sentences of death in absentia...