Neutralia

"Scott-King's Modern Europe" (abridged version), Cornhill, Summer 1947, also published as "A Sojourn in Neutralia," Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, November 1947.

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The town of Simona stands within sight of the Mediterranean Sea on the foothills of the great massif which fills half the map of Neutralia.

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So he clung to the Ritz, empty as it was, contemptuously as he felt himself regarded there, as the one place in Neutralia where salvation might still be found.

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Out of it emerged the present republic of Neutralia, a typical modern state, governed by a single party, acclaiming a dominant Marshal, supporting a vast ill-paid bureaucracy whose work is tempered and humanized by corruption.

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In Neutralia for a scholar of the first class the salary is 500 ducats a month.

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I have seven children, all born in Neutralia, all without nationality.

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But in Neutralia we take such things bravely, with a laugh.

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He had said that a torn and embittered world was that day united in dedicating itself to the majestic concept of Bellorius, in rebuilding itself first in Neutralia, then among all the yearning peoples of the West, on the foundations Bellorius had so securely laid.

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What was more, Miss Bombaum said, she had just learned from a book in her possession that Bellorius had never had any connection with Neutralia at all; he had been a Byzantine general.

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“So far as the press of Neutralia is concerned, nothing happened.”

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998