Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere of correctness and studied pleasantry went on during a luncheon at the Forest Hills home of U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie. Even the orchestra stayed neutral. It played both The Sidewalks of New York and the Red army's march Meadowlands, and, at the President's request, Edvard Grieg's I Love You. But Harry Truman extricated himself as soon as possible. He headed straight for the nearest military hospital -in this case St. Albans Naval Hospital-to visit men wounded in Korea...
...country declared itself completely neutral on the Korean situation...
...Neutral Field. But that night, as he prepared for the last, 2,300-mile leg of his journey to Wake Island, an odd atmosphere of expectancy and something very like tension settled over the expedition. Truman and MacArthur-who had never set eyes on each other, and who had clashed publicly over U.S. policy in Formosa (TIME, Sept. 4)-seemed, at the moment, like the sovereign rulers of separate states, approaching a neutral field with panoplied retainers to make talk and watch each other's eyes...
...harshness of the terms imposed on Germany, arguing that a generous peace was more likely to last. Between the wars, he was out of office for nine years. When war came again, the pro-Hitler Nationalist leader, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, moved in Parliament that South Africa stay neutral. Smuts defeated him at the polls, led South Africa into the war at Britain's side. Later, as a delegate at San Francisco, he helped write the preamble of the United Nations Charter...
Then Schumacher rose to the attack. By joining the Council of Europe, argued Schumacher, West Germany would serve notice that it had finally abandoned its 17 million East German brothers to Red rule. Schumacher in advance suspected a united Western Europe of turning into a neutral bloc, which would try to concentrate on its own affairs, fail to carry out a vigorous political offensive against the Russians in Eastern Europe. What was needed, said Schumacher, was not a united Western Europe but a united Europe-with a united Germany at its center. But he failed to say how he would...