Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many threatening things Per Albin saw as he prepared his speech to the Riksdag. For more than three years he had kept his country neutral while war raged on every side. Sweden's trade had been perforce with Germany and satellite Finland: her iron flowed steadily and uninterruptedly into German munitions plants. And neutrality had paid. Compared with the rest of Europe, Sweden had done well. Living standards fell only 15% by 1941, then leveled off. Military expenditures increased, but not to the point of taking the bread from Swedish mouths. While Norwegians across the mountains starved and bled...
...line to succeed Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana as The Netherlands' first King since 1890.* Ordinarily, if born on Canadian soil, the child would be a British subject. To meet this problem the Canadian Government decreed that Juliana's ward in the Ottawa Civic Hospital is neutral territory for the duration of her confinement...
...Argentina the United Nations lost a friend this week and "prudently neutral" President Ramón S. Castillo an enemy. Death took big, two-fisted General Agustín Justo, 66, ex-President and outstanding candidate for reelection in November. The cause: cerebral hemorrhage...
...request of Argentina's Supreme Court that the Nazi spymaster and Naval Attaché, Captain Dietrich Niebuhr (TIME, Jan. 4), stand trial in Argentina for espionage. Thus Captain Niebuhr would escape the justice of Argentina's highest court, spend the duration of the war (if Argentina remained neutral), shielded by diplomatic immunity, within the bulging walls of the German Embassy. This week Argentina slapped back, requested that the spy be recalled to Germany...
...Vito Dumas, sailed his 30-ft. yacht into the harbor at Wellington, New Zealand, last week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...