Word: neutralized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exact spot near the Calves (rocks) of Cava where Reuter's ships went down. Four days after Prien's U-boat raid, Nazi planes in five waves swept over the Flow plunking bombs. They approached from the north over the central port of Kirkwall, where 60 neutral ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters engaged them. Two of their bombs hit close to Iron Duke, damaging but not sinking her. British fighting planes and anti-aircraft fire drove...
...which annoyed Adolf Hitler, who last week called for fiercer action by his U-boats and Air Force to enforce his counter-blockade against Britain. Neutral ships were warned against joining Allied convoys. Scandinavians in the Baltic were advised to use the Kiel Canal to facilitate German search and seizure. And out over the North Sea sped squadrons of Nazi planes to attack the Allied convoys, a new phase of World War II. In the first two encounters of this sort last week, British escort warships held the Nazis off with gunfire until British fighters could arrive from their land...
...Allied and neutral losses Oct. 17 to 24 were 39,500 tons...
...spring of this year Adolf Hitler "invited" all three Scandinavian States to sign bilateral non-aggression pacts with the Reich. Norway and Sweden promptly refused, saying this would infringe their "strictly neutral" status, but Neighbor Denmark felt obliged to sign, and this marked the first minor break in the Neutral Front of the Nordic Bloc. Whether or not the Führer can use it as an opening wedge, Scandinavia was becoming war-jittery, Stockholm citizens were building air-raid shelters, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark were reported on the point of placing orders...
...growing discontent of Norway under the Swedish Crown and there were plenty of Swedes with an Abraham Lincoln mentality who preferred civil war to permitting secession. On this issue the Crown Prince firmly took the stand he has maintained all his life, an enlightened attitude of calm neutrality (he has been 81 years a neutral) in which the prestige of the Crown was thrown on the side of letting the Norwegian people choose by peaceful ballot to go their...