Word: neutral
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almost as soon as H.U.E.R.A. was formed, the A. F. of L. charged that it was receiving University support. College officials denied this, and, following student protests, posted placards telling employees that the University was taking a neutral stand in the inter-union contest...
Normally, Spain would be the neutral center of activities during the quadricentennial celebration, but the abrogation of scholastic freedom under the France regime has caused the world to turn elsewhere for a keynote to the anniversary...
...knows all there is to know about party management. This know-how is crucial in the Labor Party, which is an insecure amalgam of two parties-the trade unionists, who have the votes, and the theoretical socialists, who supply the agitation. Clement Attlee's strength is his neutral smallness. All the big men around him belong to one side or the other. Attlee belongs to both and to neither...
...American Union, Canada would almost inevitably side with the United States. Doing so, we should incite South American suspicion; have the Latin Republics believe that we were part of a North American bloc . . . subservient to a 'big stick' from Washington. Better . . . [to] be regarded as neutral, or, better still, as a friend...
Davies' new company can now almost surely count on State Department support to win concessions in two potentially oil-rich, but undeveloped Middle East territories: 1) Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; and 2) the Persian Gulf "neutral zone" jointly owned by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Ahmad ibn as Sabbah of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabbah last week was already dickering with bidders for the neutral-zone concession...