Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phrase, "When and if repeal of the embargo is accomplished," he interpolated: ''And I'd'rather say 'when than if.' " *German submarines can cruise about 3,000 miles, by proclamation of Franklin Roosevelt have the right to be peacefully present in neutral U. S. waters, refuel at U. S. ports, go peacefully home. Germany's famed Deutschland in World War I twice dodged the British and crossed to the U. S. Its U-53 put up at Newport, R. I. just before it sank six foreign merchantmen off Nantucket...
...back Dobruja. In Tsarist times Russia always posed in the Balkans as "Protector of the Slave." It was this role which brought her into World War I against Austria and then Germany. In World War II, the Soviet Government has been rapidly swallowing Polish territory while describing itself as "neutral." Last week Moscow, in an official declaration to Bucharest, declared that so far as Rumania is concerned Russia will remain "neutral." Many Rumanians believed that the speed with which the U. S. S. R. nipped in and took southern Poland before Germany could do so, thus keeping the Reich from...
...least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
...France in not declaring war on Russia (but wondered, in that case, why they were still fighting Germany). Then he announced Italy's stand: "My policy was fixed in the declaration of September 1, and there is no reason to change it." In other words, Italy would stay neutral unless attacked...
Admitting that it is impossible for the United States to be absolutely neutral in the war, Professor Holcombe said that the country would have to decide on which side to throw its influence...