Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow last week for Germany. By word and action, as surely as if he had ordered his troops to fire, he compelled the Allies to divert men, equipment and energy from Tunisia (see col. 3) and spend them upon preparations which might have been deferred if Spain were safely neutral...
Francisco Franco looked north and saw German troops concentrated on the Spanish-French border. To the south, U.S. and British forces formed a virtual arc around Spanish Morocco. From the U.S. in the west had come assurances of peaceful intentions if Spain remained neutral. From Italy in the east, Franco's onetime ally, harassed Benito Mussolini, cried out hopefully: "There is no longer any distinction between Fascism, Naziism and Falangism...
...kicked out of the Soviet Union for telling too much a little too soon. (He tipped the news that all was not well between Hitler and Stalin in a series of articles smuggled across the border by "rabbits"-traveling diplomats who mailed the stories to his newspaper from neutral Stockholm...
...whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked the Japanese with poisoned arrows; some hunted the heads of unwary Chinese...
...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...