Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest of the operations. Whatever information these reconnaissance raids could bring in was gratefully received. The Nazis were up to their ears in guessing games about the gathering invasion storm. Their Paris radio said that the Allies were massing "50 divisions and 80,000 airborne troops" for the invasion. Neutral Swedish sources went into even greater detail, presumably on German information. They said that the Allies had piled up some 50 British and Empire divisions in the United Kingdom, 40 to 50 U.S. divisions, front-line air strength of nearly 10,000 planes, 10,000,000 tons of shipping...
...this country. This would permit the U.S. to cut off transfer of dividends and earnings to Sweden. At week's end, Leo Crowley's FEA was cautiously studying such a move. But the State Department gave the screw a turn. It added 38 more Swedish firms in neutral nations to its blacklist...
...harassed King said that he wanted a "neutral" government, i.e., one composed of men supporting neither Tito nor Mihailovich. To form such a cabinet, he summoned Ivan Subasich, onetime Governor of Croatia, a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, who had recently lived in the U.S. Handsome, hardy Dr. Subasich was flatly anti-Mihailovich, pro-Tito. His assignment was tough. Its success depended on Russian approval, since Tito would surely look to Moscow for guidance...
Britain, having stopped uncensored communication by Allied and neutral diplomats (except the U.S. and Russian), now turned off other trickles of information. All travel out of the United Kingdom, except for the most trusted of persons moving on urgent Government business, was abruptly stopped. The wellsprings of espionage at Stockholm and Lisbon promptly dried...
Gamble. Propaganda aside, other information from neutral sources indicated that the Germans had moved substantial forces westward in recent weeks, and that Nazi lack of reserves had contributed to the extraordinary speed of the Russian advance in the Ukraine. If so, the Second Front is already yielding military profits and the German High Command has now a tough decision to make: whether to dip into its central strategic reserve (believed to be from 40 to 50 divisions) to try to salvage the situation in Rumania. Swedish military sources estimated that the German southern wing must have at least 20 fresh...