Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just inside the neutral Settlement, atop an exposed tower, the London Daily Telegraph's, ace Correspondent Philip Pembroke Stephens, who recently flew from London to Hong Kong to cover the war, watched the capture of Shanghai with seven other whites. In the ensuing lull some 20 minutes later a U. S. patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets...
...Stalinist Swiss Communist Party, and evidence seized led to arrests of many other Communists in Basel and Geneva as well. Documents seized show, according to the police, that Stalinists in Switzerland have succeeded in recruiting and shipping to Spain 1,200 volunteers for the Spanish Leftists in violation of neutral Switzerland...
...Satevepost advertising revenue had fallen below $18,000,000, and although "nonpartisan, but never neutral" had been a strict Lorimer policy, the New Deal brought out his Republican individualism. In 1934 his ordinarily innocuous editorial page began to sputter and fume about "Who is Going to Pay?", "Roads to Nowhere." But Satevepost profits, unlike those of many other New Deal haters, surged ahead. Publisher Curtis had turned over Satevepost and Curtis Publishing Co. in its entirety to Mr. Lorimer in 1932, and when Lorimer retired at the beginning of this year he left the Curtis house well in order...
...Chinese artillery-all opened up in bedlam, streaking the evening sky with tracer bullets. Japanese aircraft, zooming up from a field the Chinese were bombing, got busy in mad efforts to save themselves and retaliate with as much damage to Chinese as possible, proceeded to fly over the neutral foreigners in the International Settlement with full cargoes of bombs, released these at speed over the Settlement, aimed them, of course, to fall in a slanting trajectory on Chinese positions a few yards outside...
...south of Spain the same desire to beat the winter in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada put none other than bombastic Rightist "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano off the air last week and into action for the first time in months. Neutral observers hailed this as prelude to a long delayed advance along the seacoast toward Almeria...