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Fifty years ago, when Hitler's tanks were poised at the English Channel and his bombers were pounding London, Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the U.S., though still neutral, had to supply Britain with the military equipment it desperately needed. "We must admit that there is risk in any course we may take," F.D.R. said on a national radio broadcast. But backing America's natural ally "involves the least risk now and the greatest hope for world peace in the future...
...quick scan of the dial revealed the secrets of the world: The distinctive tones of BBC announcers. The signature tune of West Germany's Radio Deutsche-Well. The programs on Swiss Radio International that were so, well, neutral...
...Ukraine with its own soldiers? The idea may not be so farfetched: in Kiev last week the parliament overwhelmingly passed a declaration of sovereignty. Stopping short of proclaiming full independence, the document insists that the republic's laws take precedence over Moscow's rule. Furthermore, the decree envisions a neutral, nuclear-free Ukraine with its own army and currency. Even the large bloc of Communist parliamentary deputies joined nationalists in pressing for a fundamental change in relations with Moscow...
...silence oppressed us all the more. We tried to distract Father by attempting to strike up a conversation about some more or less neutral news from Moscow, but he didn't react. Sometimes he broke the silence himself by saying bitterly that his life was over, that life made sense as long as people needed him, but now, when nobody needed him, life was meaningless. Sometimes tears welled up in his eyes...
More than 4000 miles removed from this spring's nationally publicized inter-departmental controversy, Sociology Chair Aage B. Sorensen has remained absent--and so far neutral--in the dispute between his program and the Social Studies concentration...