Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoners refusing repatriation would be re-screened by a commission of neutral nations and repatriated or not according to their choice...
...hardware) William Purtell. Then, last July, came the death of Connecticut's other Democratic Senator, Brien McMahon. After a soul-searching vacation in the Virgin Islands, Lodge returned to Hartford, again declared he was not a candidate. He promised a free and open convention (i.e., he would remain neutral) to choose a nominee...
...convention of six hundred odd selected one slate of delegates and a rump of forty-eight selected another. The legal delegation included one Eisenhower rooter, Mr. Julia, and one for Stassen, Mr. Romani, while the rump electees included two men for Taft. Common to both groups was a supposedly neutral delegate...
...means accepted a passive role, and finally one of them put a motion to unseat Romani, replace him with the third Rump electee, and otherwise leave the delegation as Gabrialson and Gates had bequeathed it. After another wrangle, the Committee passed this motion, and since the neutral delegate whom both groups shared had voted with the Taft men on all issues, this virtually deprived the legal Puerto Rican convention of any representation whatsoever...
...words, and it was time that someone spoke them in Switzerland. Only trouble: they were never spoken. The day before Beck was to make his speech, an advance copy reached the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (circ. 70,000), Switzerland's most influential newspaper. Shocked to the core of their neutral souls, the editors alerted the National Day Committee and Zurich's Board of Education. Result: Beck delivered a pallid speech from which his blast at neutrality had carefully been blue-penciled...