Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North China, meanwhile, the 400,000 Chinese troops were holding off the Japanese advance in the Suchow sector with some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep...
...longer was a majority of the class in favor of Government ownership of utilities. Learning for the first time that there were two sides to the question, enough pro-Government-ownership students had switched to an undecided or opposite position to make the median score of the class neutral...
...Neutral observers in Mexico City judged that President Cardenas and his associates have only just realized what economists have known for months: that his agrarian decrees of the past year have had many disastrous results. Total production of such Mexican staple crops as wheat, corn and cocoa has shrunk sharply partly due to drought, partly to inefficient working of lands divided and parceled out among the peons...
...Leftist consul at Gibraltar went about with pockets stuffed with cash like a racing bookmaker. In driblets, two and three men at a time, Rightist deserters arrived, some in rowboats from Algeciras across the bay, some by land from La Linea across no man's land to neutral ground. Back & forth to British police headquarters went the consul to pay the small fines imposed on the deserters for illegal entry, to arrange to send them on to Valencia...
...possibility that the League, now that it lacks Germany, Italy and Japan, may come to be considered as primarily a Democratic alliance opposed to Fascism. The Swiss Government has already served notice that the League cannot remain at Geneva if it loses its universal character. Reason: The neutral Swiss dare not let their country be used as base by any group for operating against another-not even by Democracy (favored by the Swiss) to oppose Fascism or Naziism (which they detest...