Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injury to his eyes kept him out of combat service with the Army. But Robert Lansing got him a captaincy in Intelligence; his job was liaison officer between the Army and the War Trade Board, handling the legal details of such matters as the seizure of neutral ships. In 1919, he was sent to the Versailles Conference as a member of the Interim Reparations Commission...
...admiral's jeep passed within a few feet of a column of 83 Chinese soldiers, heavily armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades. It was a flagrant violation of assurances given by the Reds to General Matthew Ridgway last month that they would respect a neutral zone around Kaesong, would keep armed soldiers out of the conference area...
...statesman of the week was a trench-coated soldier with a hand grenade taped to his shoulder harness. Almost from the moment the truce talks started in "neutral" Kaesong, General Matt Ridgway had chafed under a sense of an intolerable situation. The choice was to accept a long-drawn-out negotiation and daily humiliation, or to force a showdown...
...kind of talk that Americans approved and understood. Apparently, Communists understood it too. After three days of bluster, the Communists backed down. When the talking began again, Kaesong was truly a neutral city. Reported the U.N. delegates of the new truce discussions: "Some progress was made...
Summer session director William Y. Elliott and Professor Sidney Hook of New York University provided the most active discussion of the evening. "The West should understand its faith is based on an idea of human personality which is indemonstrable by scientific means and towards which science is neutral," Elliott maintained...