Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jobs for 1943. If Adolf Hitler had plans for winning victory in 1943, he did not detail them. But the day after he spoke, vague outlines of his first steps could be seen. He reshuffled Germany's diplomatic representation in three important countries. To neutral Stockholm, whence Germany in the past sent out peace feelers, went Hans Thomsen, the steady, approachable, onetime Charge d'Affaires in Washington. To Spain, whose Mediterranean coastline confronts the Allies in North Africa, went Hans Adolf von Moltke, German Ambassador to Poland when that country was invaded. To Japan, replacing the tried & trusted...
Officially Franco still remained neutral. He sent his Foreign Minister, Count Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, and twelve military and diplomatic bigwigs for wining, dining and a joint accord on neutrality and anti-Communism with neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian...
...weird, neutral land of Ireland was in a stew about censorship last week. The censorship had nothing to do with the war. A farmer had complained to Eire's Book Censorship Bureau that he had found his daughter reading The Tailor and Anstey, a translation from the Gaelic of free-style conversation between an old Cork peasant and his wife. The Bureau (four professors, one a Catholic priest) promptly banned the book...
...Indian Ocean one of them was intercepted recently by Allied naval forces. At first the 8,000-ton cargo ship hoisted a neutral flag, gave the name of a neutral vessel, but in misspelling the name tipped its game. When Allied warships opened fire the crew scuttled the ship. Seventy-eight Germans were captured. From them it was learned that the ship, en route from Japan to Germany with a valuable cargo, was a blockade runner...
President Higinio Morinigo, brought over by promises to keep him in office after the expiration of his legal term, aided the military clique in its plan to dismiss pro-Allied Foreign Minister Luis Argana and reorient Paraguayan policy toward neutral Buenos Aires rather than toward belligerent Rio. The Morinigo Government stopped work on the new $1,000,000 airport under construction near Asunción. The protests of bearded U.S. Ambassador Wesly Frost produced no results and U.S. airport engineers packed to go home...