Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such evidence has been piling up in recent weeks. Last week rumors and reports poured in from the neutral countries near Germany, from the Reich itself, from occupied territory. The message they seemed to spell out: crisis is bringing on important changes in the German High Command and civil government. Expert observers in London studied the evidence with interest and caution, offered an interested and cautious verdict: "Could...
London reported last week that the Germans had advised Pius to seek refuse in Liechtenstein, the tiny (65 sq. mi.) Catholic principality tucked in the mountains between Switzerland and Germany. But Pius would not voluntarily leave his neutral haven...
...Portugal. The day of the announcement that Allied ships had sailed in, Germany's Minister Baron Oswald von Hoyningen-Huene talked with Salazar for an hour, came out smiling. Berlin's reaction was formal: a protest, vague threats of retribution, nothing more. Portugal was a neutral no longer; she was a participant...
Argentines are not fools. They are a smart, proud people. Most of them are for the Allies-from a distance. Most of them honestly think that their country can stay neutral and survive. That is one reason why they did not oppose the "prudent neutrality" of ex-President Ramon S. Castillo more than they did, why for a long time they had no serious misgivings about the stubborn neutrality of President Pedro Ramirez. But last week their misgivings were serious. Obviously, their Government was in a crisis; just as obviously, it was in confusion...
...This is a situation where emotions and beliefs are intense. Here is no neutral ground. The day of weeping and of bloodshed has not yet passed in this ancient land...