Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known for certain who may fight whom; in stacking up the armed forces of the world against each other it is not certain for example whether Japan is to be counted as one of the Axis powers, or because of her involvement in China she may remain neutral ; it is equally uncertain whether Russia may belong to the Democratic front or be a neutral; it is even uncertain whether the U. S. will be a neutral or a member of the Democratic front...
...with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships of other nationalities. That was understandable, since the U. S. has in the Pacific the only Navy that could protect its seagoing nationals...
...same time, in Ankara the Kamutay (Turkish parliament) unanimously approved the alliance. Premier Refik Saydam told the deputies that Turkey had once thought that the country's best course was to remain neutral, but that recent aggressions in the Balkans had made neutrality impossible. Not forgotten, moreover, was the fact that Italy possesses the heavily armed Dodecanese Islands, only a few miles off Turkey's mainland...
Present policy of the Yugoslav Government is to remain neutral. Yugoslavs know well that acceptance of the Dictators' proposals that she sign up with them m the anti-Comintern Pact almost inevitably means the end of independence, but that outright rejection of any and all alliances might be equally disastrous. Noteworthy it was last week that Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, after chatting for several days with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano in Venice, traveled to Berlin to see Führer Adolf Hitler. Then he went back home, announced proudly he had "signed nothing...
...squad takes its first out-of-town trip this weekend with Dartmouth and Brown providing the opposition on Friday and Saturday respectively in Providence. On the following Friday, they tangle with the Holy Cross linksters at another neutral battleground--New Haven. The next day Yale and William will oppose the Crimson in a double bill in the morning and afternoon. Next, the boys will be on deck for the New England Intercollegiates at Oakley Country Club...