Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of the A.P. thunder, until Professor Chafee spoke, neutral voices have been feeble and almost unheard. There have been a few articles, in small circulation publications like Harper's Magazine and The Nation. That...
...Tokyo just before Bataan fell. From the streets of the Japanese capital, he saw Doolittle's raiders swoop low over the housetops a year ago (see p. 30). Japanese officials received him and confided in him as a representative of a "cooperating" nation. But Lavalle himself was not neutral: he was against the Japs, against the Axis. After ten wartime months in Japan, he left for the U.S., sorrowfully convinced that his own country was "the eyes and ears of the Japanese Government in the Western Hemisphere." He quit his job, is working temporarily with OWL Last week...
From Smolensk to Tunis last week, German troops were singing it. British soldiers were whiling away hot African evenings listening to it on enemy broadcasts and inventing English words. To meet German competition. British broadcasters had started airing the song themselves-an English version was sweeping England. Neutral Swedes and Swiss were crooning it. The song's original name was The Song of the Young Sentry. But millions, all over Europe, knew the catchy little ditty better as Lili Marleen...
Both moves had the same base: Argentina, with her own 65-ship (382,000-ton) merchant marine, has been able to ship far more than the world is willing or able to send back to her. The U.S. in particular has cold-shouldered neutral Argentina. As a result Argentina's reserves of gold and foreign currency stood at 2.2 billion pesos at the end of 1942, by last week were up to 2.5 billion as gold and exchange flowed in to balance her export surplus. But an important fraction of this increase came from speculators-particularly European refugees wise...
...result in pyramiding cost increases at every level of the economy, from raw material to ultimate consumer. Some railroads automatically howled at ICC's change of heart, but as a whole the carriers can well afford the $173 million cut in 1943 revenues. The U.S. Treasury had a neutral viewpoint: it will lose about as much in taxes as the U.S. Government, the railroads' No. 1 customer, will save on its freight bill...