Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pearl Harbor came too late for Colonel Demas T. ("Nick") Craw of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Congenitally unable to wait for war, he took his fighting when & where he found it as a ("neutral") military observer in the Middle East and Europe...
...picture was clear and complete, Washington acted. On June 30, 1942 U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude G. Bowers presented a 20-page memorandum to the Chilean Government which suggested politely that the existence of such a spy network was not only a violation of Chilean sovereign rights as a neutral but a menace to the entire Western Hemisphere...
This was as plain a warning as the President of a neutral country could give that Turkey would be neither a diplomatic nor a military pushover for the Axis. Turkey was preparing northern defenses. Vital Turkish chromium was being shipped to the United Nations while Hitler paid Turkey in locomotives and rolling stock for the 90,000 tons he hoped to get in 1943.* U.S. Lend-Lease shipments to Turkey were increasing. Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov was expected soon to return to Ankara. The signs were as clear as Inönü's words...
Germany's chief Foreign Office spokesman, fat, foul-tempered Dr. Paul Schmidt, hates all neutral reporters, especially the uncowed Swiss. Last week, at a press conference, he snarled at them again. The Swiss press, began Dr. Schmidt in his heavy voice, had a "negative attitude" toward the New Order...
...Tennessee highway one soldier, lost-looking, ambling, alone, without his gun, caught the eye of Lieut. General Ben Lear, who stopped his car, ordered him in. On the man's shoulder was a white rag-mark of an umpire. The soldier explained: "I'm a neutral, sir." More and firmer questioning proved the soldier was AWOL, had wandered into the maneuver area on the way back to his outfit from North Carolina. To his outfit -and the MPs-the imaginative and resourceful soldier was promptly delivered by his general...