Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom of the Emden to travel accompanied by a coal tender and, usually, a "junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded to capacity, the "junkman" was released and sent steaming off to the nearest port. So bloated grew the Emden with provisions from her victims that Captain von Müller gave a band concert every afternoon and served coffee and bonbons to his crew...
...United States as a Neutral Power, 1914-1917", Professor Baxter, New Lecture Hall...
...United States as a Neutral Power, 1914-1917". Professor Baxter, New Lecture Hall...
...repair of her devastated regions as she asked last week, and Mr. Young is credited with having persuaded the Allies to scale down the bill they would otherwise have presented by more than one-sixth. Ominous Predictions. Several mem bers of the Japanese delegation, previously closemouthed and ostentatiously "neutral," expressed to correspondents their private belief as individuals that the Second Dawes Committee would soon be on the rocks...
...small pontifical State," observed Osservatore Romano (Papal daily) last week, "is already supernational, free, independent and neutral by its own nature, and not by virtue of accords among other powers. . . . The Holy Father will know well how to defend the Church's liberty in the new order of things...