Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressures. But the Allies could not accept the last of these points. The war had reached a stage where Italy could not withdraw, could not be neutral. If she were not on the German side, she had to take the Allied side. For Italy had become a vital breach in Festung Europa, an avenue to, and a rampart of, the inner citadel of Germany. The Anglo-American and the German military machines were squeezing her hard...
...Allies have forces of unannounced size, composition and readiness in the eastern Mediterranean, at bases in Syria and Cyprus. One approach for these forces is through neutral Turkey to Bulgaria. Another, the only one open unless Turkey permits passage, is by sea and air to Crete, into the Aegean, and thence into Greece. In Greece begins the historic Vardar Valley route of invasion into inner Europe...
Background to Danger (Warner) stars George Raft and Sydney Greenstreet as opposing merchants of menace in neutral Turkey. Raft, as a patent-leathery G-man, comes into possession of a "Russian plan to invade Turkey" forged by the Nazis and intended to drive Turkey into Germany's embrace. With these hot documents the fat Gestapo agent Greenstreet would like to warm his hands. But when he gives Raft the third degree on the subject of the papers' hiding place, the G-man is rescued by a Russian agent played by the supersinister Peter Lorre...
...other. Strongest of the three is Dr. Daniel François Malan's Herenigde Party. His candidates are antiwar, antiCommunist, anti-Negro. When Hitler and the Axis were riding high, Malanites cheered for Axis victory; now they say they only want the Union of South Africa to be neutral. But in this campaign Dr. Malan ranted: "It is a hundred times better that England and America should lose and not win the war, because their victory will mean that Communism is forced on the world...
...Elastic Wall. Neutrality is not a stiff wall of defense; it is elastic. When a neutral power holds the bridgeway between two theaters, the elasticity increases. Then neutrality involves giving inches at the right time to the right power, playing one power off against another. It involves careful analysis of every word in the lexicon of neutrality: "friendship," "alliance," "benevolence" and many more, until the lexicon is exhausted. For a nation in Turkey's position, the last word in the lexicon, the one to be most anxiously and searchingly scanned...