Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was more blunt. His government had studied earlier proposals for a neutral zone, he told a television interviewer, concluded that such a zone would be easily overrun in case of war. Said Adenauer: "An atom-free zone is even more than illogical, it's an illusion...
Cambodia. Prince Sihanouk, who really runs the country even when he is not officially Premier, intended originally to steer a noncommittally neutral course between East and West. He still may, but lately, possibly because the U.S. and France have been delivering their $55 million in development aid on schedule while the Chinese Communists have made good on just a fraction of the $22.9 million worth of cement, steel and textile shipments promised for 1957, his press has been outspokenly antiCommunist, and Cambodia has been voting more and more with...
Burma. U Nu, a true neutral in East-West affairs, has no illusions about Communists at home. His army has killed thousands of Communist insurgents in nine years' fighting, and recently stepped-up campaigns have resulted in mass surrender of rebels. Citizens may now travel, safe from guerrilla raids, in all but the most mountainous parts of the country. Strapped for foreign exchange as a result of a slump in rice exports and now-regretted barter deals with Communist countries, Burma has lately made some gains with its economic expansion program, though it still suffers direly from severe inflation...
...building block of the nucleus. To explain its lack of electrical charge, nuclear physicists have long supposed that the particle is made up of a tiny, positively charged core surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged mesons. These two charges were thought to cancel each other out, producing the neutral neutron...
...three of them--the cruisers Ajax, Achilles, and Exeter--succeeded in their task. After a sharp engagement that lasted an hour and a half and during which Exeter was crippled, the English task force damaged Graf Spee so severely that she was forced to take refuge in the neutral harbor of Montevideo. But the government of Uruguay would not permit the Graf Spee to remain there for more than 72 hours, So Captain Langsdorff took his ship out and, precisely at sunset on December 19, scuttled her. That night he shot himself...