Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disadvantage. The Nazis held as hostages for Italian conduct some 400,000 Italian workers in Germany, some 25 Italian divisions hemmed by the Wehrmacht in the Balkans. German troops had occupied the strategic sectors of northern Italy. The Nazi position seemed clear: if the Allies would not accept a neutral Italy, the Germans would accept nothing but Italy's continued alliance with the Reich. If Italy would not fight on with Germany, Germany would fight across Italy...
...Fortress, fuel exhausted, landed in neutral Sweden. Crew members, all uninjured, were interned...
...York World-Telegram ran five stories and an editorial in one issue. To most critics the main point was that OWI had muffed its best chance to do an effective propaganda job. Whatever the fall of Mussolini meant to John Durfee, it meant plenty to Axis, neutral and captive citizens.* The symbol of Fascism was through. OWI might have pounded that home to them in their own languages-as BBC did from Britain...
...same press conference the President served notice that all the machinery to punish Axis leaders was not simply machinery. He handed reporters a statement: "There are now rumors that Mussolini and members of his Fascist gang may attempt to take refuge in neutral territory. One day Hitler and his gang and Tojo and his gang will be trying to escape from their countries. I find it difficult to believe that any neutral country would give asylum to or extend protection to any of them. I can only say that the Government of the United States would regard the action...
...Hungarian peace feelers turned up in many neutral capitals, generally coupled with inquiries as to how much of the territory snitched from Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czecho-Slovakia she might look forward to retaining. One feeler was reported to have offered the Yugoslav Government in Exile the return of all former Yugoslav territory. It was ignored...