Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caring for the wounded soldier. Having seen thousands of wounded men lie on the battlefield for days in unattended agony, Dunant returned to Geneva to write his horror-filled Un souvenir de Solférino, to start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help of Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments to sign agreements guaranteeing respect for the wounded, neutralizing military hospitals, protecting the material and personnel of medical services. Also...
...Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
...Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
...students of the British Prime Minister's "realistic" policy, Mr. Chamberlain's notions were something less than realistic. Neither Germany's Hitler nor Italy's Mussolini showed any interest in the plan; France's Quai d'Orsay remained understandably silent. Unmentioned anywhere were "neutral" Spaniards qualified to run the country...
...atom, which is neutral in electric charge, becomes ionized when one or more of its tiny electrons is knocked away by an outside force. The particles resulting from ionization, including both the freed electrons and the remainder of the atom, have electric charges, and can exert electric force...