Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their stove-warmed tents for the usual round of long, surly wrangles or ridiculous little meetings of a few minutes (one last week lasted only 120 seconds) at which neither side would speak. The issues were the too familiar ones-the Reds' insistence that Russia is a fit neutral to police the truce, the U.S. insistence on "voluntary" repatriation of prisoners, the usual exchanges of insults over mishandling of P.W.s. To cloud the air further, Peking and Moscow burst out with ludicrous charges that the U.N. forces were busily dropping germ-infected insects, cotton wads and leaflets behind Communist...
...issue which now stalemates the truce talks is Russian representation on a truce commission. The U.N. attitude is that Russia is not a "neutral," and to recognize her as such would be to give her a legal foothold in South Korea; the U.N. had gone quite far enough by its willingness to accept as neutrals the Soviet stooges, Czechoslovakia and Poland. But the Communist negotiators stick stubbornly to the demand, even though the U.N. has said (in its bluntest words yet) that its position is "firm, final and irrevocable." Even if this issue can be settled, there remains the question...
American." In neutral Norway in World War I, Hamsun went into retirement to write his major work, Growth of the Soil, which brought him the 1920 Nobel Prize. He gave away the prize money, refused to be interviewed. Said he "In 100 years I shall be forgotten...
...Fence Leaning over backward to be neutral between the free world and Communism, the moppet Republic of Indonesia last week leaned so far that it fell on its head. Premier Sukiman's ten-month-old coalition cabinet resigned. Reason: in accepting $8,000,000 Mutual Security Aid from the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 25), the government had to formally declare itself on the West's side, a declaration which horrified the Indonesian Parliament...
...barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted as one of the six "neutral" nations on the truce commission...