Word: neutralistic
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...visit him in Moscow. German Protestants are proud of bearded Bishop Dibelius, a courageous prelate who has again & again sharply attacked the Communists from the pulpit, and they hoped that he would make a more forceful impression on the Russians than Pastor Martin Niemöller, a political neutralist, who deprecated stories about Soviet religious persecution after his visit to Moscow in January (TIME, Jan. 14). While packing his bags, Bishop Dibelius made it plain that he intended to ask for the release of German war prisoners. Said he: "Without the hope of being able to do something...
Imperialism? At one point, Taft managed to sound like a European neutralist criticizing U.S. "intervention." People who think that the U.S. should assume moral leadership of the world, said he, propose to use money and even arms "to see that the world does what we think the world ought to do. When you come to the last analysis, that is imperialism...
Among Paris' 14 French-language dailies, one paper-Le Monde (circ. 150,000) -stands head & shoulders above the rest. Though "neutralist" in politics, its devotion to responsibility in journalism is such that it is often called the New York Times of Paris. A fortnight ago Le Monde readers got a shock. Many of them, who fear that the U.S. will leave France holding the sack if the Russians ever invade Western Europe, found a piece of "news" that confirmed their worst suspicions...
Guerard cited neutralism and defeatism as two powerful and dominant negative sentiments in modern French thought. The neutralist force, which includes members of all political coloring, dreads a third World War. However, in the event of war, segments of the neutrals would likely align themselves with America, he continued, while defeatists probably would abandon all hope...
...governments of Britain and France, prodded by their neutralist and third-force factions, were more ready than the U.S. to see a chance for a deal that might appease the men in the Kremlin. But, in the interests of unity, each of the Big Three replied to Moscow's overture with identical notes. They blamed Russia for remilitarizing East Germany and for rejecting the Western proposal of free elections as the basis of a united Germany. They agreed to another talk, provided that the agenda were broadened to include all causes of "present international tensions...