Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand there while they held up the whole queue, so I helped the German to buy his ticket. While we were putting our tickets and money into our billfolds, the German turned to me and said: "Rather stupid to be mechanical about things when one is in a neutral country, nicht wahr? I just came from Berlin, but I am a Hamburger." As he said the last word, his mouth twitched convulsively...
...little fat man with the red sash read the dispatches and concluded that he had led Spain far enough along the twisting road from pro-Axis nonbelligerency to neutral unneutrality. Francisco Franco felt that now he could relax a little...
...Spain ever since Pearl Harbor, went on the air last week with a full-dress defense of its policy toward Franco. NBC listeners to a new venture called The State Department Speaks heard high officials say that the oil goes to Spain as part of the bargaining to keep neutral countries from supplying the enemy with what the enemy wants. The Department denied that the oil seeps into Festung Europa...
...ardent feminist and a neutral at the beginning of World War I, she got into politics as Wilson's supporter, made Liberty Loan speeches, drilled with voice specialists, wrote the short stories and novels that made her fortune: Just Around the Corner, Every Soul Hath Its Song, Land of the Free, Gaslight Sonatas, Humoresque. Her 1915 marriage to Pianist Jacques Danielson was kept secret until 1920, then made a newspaper sensation when Author Hurst announced that she and her husband kept separate apartments. She traveled in Europe, made three visits to Russia, came back enthusiastic. Said she: "Pervading...
King Mihai seems to be preparing himself for the role which Vittorio Emanuele has assumed in Italy. For months, a subtle campaign has been developing in the Allied and neutral press, seeking to whitewash the young King and the discredited Rumanian royal family. Twice in recent weeks Mihai has called in Mahiu, presumably to fix up an approach to Britain. Both he and Queen Mother Helen have taken pains to visit U.S. airmen who have been forced down and sumptuously "imprisoned" in Rumania's mountains...