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Re:A world without power by jacquesm on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:45AM (#4996628)
In the words of Max Petitpierre:

"These credits and the deliveries of war material and other products [...] contributed to the war efforts of one of the belligerents. Not only had we abandonded integral neutrality, but - even worse - in so doing, we were as a rule deviating from the very notion of neutrality. "

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Re:A world without power by jacques_chester on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:54AM (#4996669)
The problem with being truly neutral is that while you are a bastion against tyranny, you are also the refuge of scoundrels.
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Re:A world without power by jacquesm on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @12:50PM (#4997972)
It wasn't quite that simple. Very interesting but very long reading:

http://www.uek.ch/en/schlussbericht/synthesis/ueke.pdf

Almost 600 pages but if you have a spare bit of time and really interested you could do a lot worse than looking at this, it is one of the most candid introspective pieces about world war II.

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