Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Was Going On? The committee's references to the former mayor (who invited one of its investigators to take testimony from him in Mexico City last week) were also on a diplomatic and neutral plane. Beyond revealing O'Dwyer's statement that he had met Costello only once, and then in obedience to an order when he was a World War II officer investigating war frauds, the committee publicly made no attempt to link...
...Reporters cannot be neutral," said Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation here and moderator at the Leverett House forum on the "Responsibility of the Press," last night. "They must make choice of the facts they will use and decide how to present them...
...Swiss philosopher Attlee quoted was Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-81), professor of esthetics and philosophy at Geneva, whose one book, Amiel's Journal, influenced many 19th Century British liberals. Amiel was more "neutral" than Attlee's quotation indicated. Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French commander in Indo-China: "Without these [French] troops, this country would be enslaved overnight to Communist tyranny. Even if some naive people do not see the danger, we must stand against it. There is no neutral...
...mention the presence of U.S. troops in any sector until the enemy knew it. Dispatches not only had to be "accurate in statement and in implication" but so written as not to "injure the morale of our forces or our allies and . . . not embarrass the U.S., its allies or neutral countries." Furthermore, warned Colonel Thompson, any violation of these rules might bring "disciplinary action" and in "extreme cases . . . arrest [for] deportation or court-martial...