Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain received the news grimly. Washington saw the "absurd" pretext of a German threat as the opening bid for stationing Soviet troops on Finnish soil while diverting attention from Soviet pressure on Berlin. Ultimately, Moscow might intend to whisk neutral Finland behind the Iron Curtain, lock the Baltic door behind her. The Swedes felt the same fears, and there was growing talk about reconsidering Sweden's historic neutrality. NATO member Norway, which shares a 390-mile frontier with Finland in the north, prepared to draw up new defense plans...
...believes staunchly in democratic institutions and has helped achieve them in Burma, which outlawed the Communist Party a few months after achieving independence. But he has supported U.N. membership for Red China, which faces neutral Burma across 1,500 miles of frontier, even while decrying Communism's "violent" tactics. This inconsistency many Burmese are willing to justify in hopes that Red China's acceptance on the world scene may restrain what U Thant regards as the primary source of conflict between nations: "Uncivilized elements in their characters.' Burma's role, he feels, is not to join...
...vehemently anti-Communist nations as Nationalist China, fear that in his pursuit of compromise, U Thant may gravely inhibit the U.N.'s role as the "conscience of mankind." They may reckon without U Thant's quiet but nonetheless firm belief that peace cannot be achieved through passive neutralism, which would mean a withdrawal from the battle for peace." Pointedly, he has declared: "Whoever occupies the office of the Secretary-General must be impartial, but not necessarily neutral...
...team of assistants proved that protons and neutrons, which form the bulk of matter, are dense at their centers, cloudlike outside and only one forty-thousandth of a billionth of an inch in diameter. Later research taught Hofstadter that protons, which have positive charges, and neutrons, which are electrically neutral, are similar in structure. The main difference is that the negative cores of neutrons balance out the positive charge on the outside...
...Question. The U.S., argued Nelson Rockefeller, "cannot shy from the responsibilities of power" by refusing to test in the atmosphere just because it may be unpopular with neutral nations. "In this age, the margin between victory and defeat-survival and disaster-can be a thin one. The question is not whether we like nuclear power or its weapons. The question is: Do we love freedom...