Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's Sphere. One obvious purpose of Herr Ribbentrop's speech was to serve notice on neutrals that any suspicious traffic with Great Britain will subject them to the threat of extinction. In passing, Power Politician Ribbentrop gave Sweden a nice pat on the head. "The Swedish Government," he said, "interpreted their declaration of neutrality very seriously indeed, and at no time did anything . . . which might not have been in accord with...
When Germany took Denmark, Adolf Hitler acquired (and emphatically disavowed) technical title to Denmark's Greenland-a vast (827,275 sq. mi.), arctic bloc only about 1,250 miles from northernmost Maine, well within the Monroe Doctrine's continental sphere. Mr. Roosevelt's advisers did not think the Nazis, with their already overtaxed fleet, could break past the British and use Greenland for a base during World...
Impressive indeed was the way in which devious Benito Mussolini meanwhile made himself the patron saint of a Balkan peace bloc. Hungary, which is geographically in Germany's sphere, swung back politically into Italy's (where she was before Anschluss). Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky was received by Count Ciano in Venice and last week Premier Count Paul Teleki was made to feel very happy in Rome-even though Benito Mussolini told him Hungary must not dream of getting Transylvania from Rumania until war's end. An Italian economic mission showed up in every Southeastern European country...
...addition economic institutions, property and market, occupational roles, and the relation of the institutional structure of authority in the occupational sphere to social stratification will be treated...
...Norway were interested. Sweden's Foreign Minister Christian E. Günther spoke of "linked destinies," and the Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have to favor...