Word: hands-off
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...Government's response to the war is being shaped mostly by events. They would have preferred that the U.S. stay entirely out of the conflict but do not believe that it could have. Says Atlanta Stockbroker A. Robert Johnson, 40: "I thought the Americans should maintain a strict hands-off policy, but if the Russians are supplying the Arabs, we must send arms to Israel." Barbara Manard, 28, a graduate student in sociology from the University of Virginia, shares that view, explaining: "No matter what the Arabs say, if they get the upper hand, they...
...events which during late summer and early autumn threatened a world war over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...