Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully guarded back room, behind the huge stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, representatives of six nations-Canada, China, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia and Syria-tried for over a week to work out a compromise on Berlin. (The press called them the "neutral nations," although they were all, as the Irish say, neutral against Russia.) The Russians still wanted the Berlin case thrown out of the U.N. Security Council...
While Greeks and Americans tended to blame each other for the "situation," the truth was that both were faced with a very tough military and political problem: How to destroy an enemy when his base in a "neutral" country is immune from attack...
...slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...nation we are moving from the idea that the State should be neutral as between the churches or religious faiths, to the idea that the State should be neutral as between all positive forms of religion on the one side and an aggressive secularism on the other...
...independent was Independent? Ten U.S. oil companies ponied up its $10 million capital. The State Department smoothed the path to the Sheikh of Kuweit, joint owner with Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud of the Arabian desert's "neutral zone," where Independent's oil concession lies. State also passed the word that Independent was its chosen instrument for the "neutral zone" oil lands. And Arabian American Oil Co., in neighboring Saudi Arabia, was ready to let Independent use the projected 1,100-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean...