Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present neutrality act is based on the assumption "that our neutral trade and our neutrality got us into the last war," Borchard asserted. "But it was not trade that got us in. It was sheer unneutrality--the official favoring of on side against the other...
Such an outburst by the Spanish Lenin loomed this week as of capital importance to Anarchists, Socialists, Trotskyists and Stalinists as well as to neutral observers of Leftist and Rightist Spain. Defense Minister and Boss Indalecio Prieto of the Leftist Government is in origin a Spanish middle-class politician of the old school. That he should be bossing a regime which in Socialist eyes is featured today by a ''reign of terror," secret police activity as in Russia and a betrayal of the "revolu-tion"* as originally conceived by such Spanish Leftists as Largo Caballero, provided Europe last...
There was every reason to believe that the pomp of King Leopold's visit of state last week was its essence, whereas his informal visit to London last March was quietly devoted to the big business of setting up by treaty Belgium's present status as a neutral, protected in 1937 by British, French and German guarantees (TIME, April 5 et seq.). On quiet visits to London came last fortnight little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and King George II of Greece...
...arrested as "criminals," strictly abstained from hinting that the State had uncovered a political conspiracy. The seized arms were of German, British, Italian manufacture. Some of the arms caches resembled cement pillbox forts, some contained radio equipment, and detectives were tracing private telephone wires they had discovered. Most neutral Paris correspondents agreed with the New York Times that it was too early to guess whether what had been partially uncovered was the makings of a coup d'etat or simply the stock in trade of French smugglers busy catering to the needs of Spain's civil...
...between China and Japan in the past,* a point has generally been reached when the morale of the less well-armed Chinese soldiery gave way and the Chinese Government sued for peace on the best terms it could get. The heavy reverses China has now suffered on all fronts, neutral Shanghai observers balanced this week against the fact that Japan has taken three times as long as she originally scheduled to capture Shanghai, the fact that in the four months of this war Japan has now spent as much as she spent on the whole Russo-Japanese...