Tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement

Usage examples of neutrality.

And because of the aberration of the Dutch and Belgians for neutrality there had been no staff consultations by which the defenders could pool their plans and resources to the best advantage.

Third Reich and its reoccupation of the Rhineland in the spring of 1936, Belgium, which wisely had abandoned neutrality after 1918, again sought refuge in it.

To add insult to injury the Polish ambassador in Moscow was informed that Russia would maintain strict neutrality in the Polish conflict!

Here too time was a factor, as it was with Belgium and Holland, which could be compelled by Britain and France to give up their neutrality - something Germany could not afford to wait for.

Germany, whose government solemnly vouched for and promised the preservation of and respect for this neutrality only a few weeks ago!

We shall not justify the breach of neutrality as idiotically as in 1914.

Army commanders shared about the success of an offensive at this time or to question the immorality of attacking Belgium and Holland, whose neutrality and borders the German government had solemnly guaranteed.

Hitler realized, as he had told his generals in his memorandum of October 9, that Soviet neutrality could not be counted on forever.

But Chamberlain and Halifax were most reluctant to violate Norwegian neutrality, and the proposal was for the time being dropped.

Obviously neutrality no longer offered protection to the little democratic nations trying to survive in a totalitarian-dominated world.

May 10, 1940, the ambassador of Belgium and the minister of the Netherlands in Berlin were summoned to the Wilhelmstrasse and informed by Ribbentrop that German troops were entering their countries to safeguard their neutrality against an imminent attack by the Anglo-French armies - the same shabby excuse that had been made just a month before with Denmark and Norway.

Third Reich had given the two small Low Countries guarantees of their neutrality almost without number.

German Government has further given the assurance to Belgium and Holland that it is prepared to recognize and to guarantee the inviolability and neutrality of these territories.

But the Belgians, still clinging to the illusions of neutrality which fortified their hope that they yet might be spared involvement in war, would not go further.

The headstrong young ruler, who had taken his country out of its alliance with France and Britain into a foolish neutrality, who had refused to restore the alliance even during the months when he knew the Germans were preparing a massive assault across his border, who at the last moment, after Hitler had struck, called on the French and British for military succor and received it, now deserted them in a desperate hour, opening the dyke for German divisions to pour through on the flank of the sorely pressed Anglo-French troops.