Word: neutralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hell & High Water. Across the world, over the uncertain radio channels between Tokyo and Europe, the same message in diplomatic code creaked along via the neutral governments of Sweden (for relay to Russia and Britain) and Switzerland (for relay to the U.S. and China). While the world throbbed with the known news, the President went on with his day's work...
Chiang Kai-shek read it in Chungking and approved it. Winston Churchill worked on it and signed it in Potsdam while he was still Prime Minister; Clement Attlee, prudently included in the early Potsdam meetings, approved it before he had any authority to sign it. Joseph Stalin, nominally neutral in the Pacific war, did not sign the declaration, but he undoubtedly gave it a look...
Double Selling. During World War I, Philips stayed on its neutral feet. In 1919, it began its characteristic way of doing business. The first was an exclusive cross-licensing of light-bulb patents with General Electric. Then followed a truce with the German lamp trust, Osram, and the formation, in 1924, of the giant Phoebus cartel, to control the sale of lamp bulbs throughout the world. This included companies in Britain, France, Germany and Japan, and American-owned foreign companies. Phoebus "stabilized" prices at a high level, roughly four times higher than...
...have not resounded in the Metropolitan Opera since she joined her husband in Nazi-held Norway four years ago, planned to return to the U.S. "to see my daughter [by a previous marriage - Mrs. Elsa Dusenberry of Bozeman, Mont.] if not to sing." Flagstad managed to keep herself politically neutral by refusing to sing for Nazi audiences, but her wealthy quisling husband, Henry Johansen, was less successful: his one-week imprisonment in a Gestapo concentration camp last February was described by Norwegian patriots as a "face-saving maneuver," during which he lived in the camp commandant's quarters...
Countess, Clausewitz & Tsar. Hornblower's new job was no less than to persuade Russia, Sweden and Prussia to join the war against Napoleon. The best way to persuade them, Hornblower decided, was to show the neutrals what the Royal Navy could do. French warships were soon frantically scuttling to safety. When they kept to the open sea, Hornblower's seamanship outmaneuvered them, his broadsides raddled them; when they holed up in neutral ports, Hornblower's bomb-ketches lay outside and .lobbed immense mortars onto their decks...