Word: neutralized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fall, foreseeing trouble, Allied headquarters in Italy designated a New Zealand division to take over Trieste at the first opportunity and hold it under neutral rule pending negotiation...
...speech was lit up by a blaze of Churchillian anger at Prime Minister Eamon de Valera for remaining obstinately neutral throughout...
Embarrassment by Bombers. But the most embarrassing commuter dropped down on the Barcelona airport in a Junkers bomber piloted by two Luftwaffe officers in mufti. From the plane onto neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...
When a report of Junker's lecture trickled through neutral countries to Cairo, archeologists began digging. Sure enough, they soon unearthed tomb writings definitely identifying the necropolis as Heliopolis' cemetery. Dr. Etienne Drioton, director of Egypt's Antiquities Service, last week reported that the diggers had already turned up valuable information about the city's Stone Age inhabitants. Digging continues...
...Switzerland alone, the Nazis thus lost a huge gob of capital and hidden assets which might otherwise have been used to hasten defeated Germany's return to power. Even more important, the Swiss measures established a precedent for similar safeguards in other neutral countries where the Nazis might seek financial and personal shelter. "Lauch" Currie had British, French and U.S. associates on his mission, but he was entitled to a personal accolade when he returned to Washington. Said he : "This really ends the last hope of the Nazis for establishing themselves through the safe haven of property held abroad...