July 5th
Norway, the Neutral Ally - Norway was officially neutral during World War One, although having a large fleet (the fourth largest in the world) and being heavily dependant on imports, meant that relations with both main proganists of the war was problematic from the outset. However, trade agreements with Great Britain, favourable to the UK and her allies, and eventual full British control of the Norwegian merchant fleet from April 1917, led to the country being known as the Neutral Ally. Huns - In 1900 Kaiser Wilhelm II sent his troops to China with the instruction to behave like the Huns of old - "Let the Germans strike fear into their hearts, so he'll be feared like the Hun." By the beginning of World War One, British propaganda had picked up the use of the term in a derogatory way, suggesting a worst kind of German conduct - crushing the enemy (neutral or not) by any means necessary. The fact that Rudyard Kipling used the term in his 1914 poem "For All We Have a
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