Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News trickling through from neutral and Chinese sources gave reasons for this Japanese loss of optimism and growing sense of desperate action. Although no clear-cut Chinese victory, such as the Taierhchwang capture last month, could be announced, Chinese forces gave every indication of unprecedented, coordinated military action in a series of minor successes throughout virtually the entire war area...
...bubbling" within the nucleus-a continuous creation, exchange and reabsorption of heavy particles. Last week Dr. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, a brilliant analyst of atomic behavior, showed how barytrons could perform this nuclear binding function if they exist in all three electrical states - positively charged, negatively charged, neutral...
...Irish leader on the floor of the House of Commons, said that "dark forces of the Irish underworld tried to strike us in the back" during the World War "and there are still dark forces at work in Ireland now." In event of war, he added, Ireland might remain neutral or demand "the whole of Ireland" as a price for throwing in their lot with England...
...Neutral observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
Last week the grand total of Japanese losses at Taierchwang was conservatively estimated by neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang...