Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Creation of a National (coal) Wage (revision) Board, representing miners and owners equally and having a neutral chairman with a casting vote; 3) Revision of wages to proceed on the explicit understanding that the Royal Coal Commission's recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the coal industry are to be given effect; 4) Legislative measures for reconstructing the coal industry to be prepared by a Government-named committee partly representative of the miners...
...Marshal knew: 1) That Poland may be said to have "lost out" diplomatically through the failure of France to secure for her a League Council seat (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE), and through the signing of the Russo-German ("neutral support") treaty between Poland's two chief enemies (TIME, May 10, GERMANY). 2) That Poland's budget refuses to balance, this having led to the fall of the Skzrynski Cabinet (TlME, May 3). 3) That early last week the Nationalist leader Witos formed a new Cabinet and welcomed into it, as Minister of War, Pilsudski's avowed...
...time to stage the final act in this great political and diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...
...believe that she would not have done precisely the same thing that France and Russia did, if she had been in their positions. In fact earlier in the year 1914 when Germany thought she could count on the aid of Italy, and had high hopes of England's remaining neutral, she was not at all adverse to the possibility of a European war. She did not, however, go so far as to make war inevitable, as France and Russia did. And then during the summer when Germany saw that things were not going as she had hoped and that...
...forth in TIME last week although not then agreed upon, it was that Sweden and Czechoslovakia should resign their Council seats, after which the assembly should elect Poland and "a neutral" (The Netherlands) to fill, these vacancies. That Sweden and Czechoslovakia should have been brought to offer such a sacrifice well illustrates the very real desire for compromise among the nations...