Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaints of discrimination can be arbitrated by a tribunal, with a neutral member to be appointed by the president of the International Court...
From Norway, which was united in indignation, Bulganin switched his diplomatic drumfire to Denmark and Sweden. Sweden, neutral since 1814, was outraged by the Russian intervention in Hungary, and recently shaken by a succession of espionage cases involving the Russians. Sweden was advised to quiet the anti-Russian tone of its press. Denmark, which like Norway has bases but forbids NATO planes to occupy them except under threat of imminent attack, got a Bulganin note eight days after Norway's. It was just as blunt: "If war is opened against the U.S.S.R., the annihilating power of modern weapons...
...feel for France in her North African dilemma. A modest, hard-working tracker of spies, 48-year-old René Dubois, born on the French side of Switzerland and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, spoke with impatience of the Arab political leaders who visited, or lived, in neutral Switzerland: "They give me a lot of trouble...
...saying that "clues" indicated that Attorney General Dubois had illegally furnished information to a foreign service, and hastened to assure the Swiss that it was "information which does not affect Swiss affairs." Dubois had committed the unpardonable error for a secret-service man and, above all, for a neutral Swiss: he had taken sides. Said the cleric who buried him last week: "He was not only a functionary. He also had a human heart...
...London had been bustling hopefully over the sudden offer of EOKA's chieftain Colonel George Grivas to "suspend" operations if Britain would free and negotiate with the exiled Archbishop Makarios. Macmillan's Cabinet had met in special session; there was talk of bringing the archbishop to some neutral city, perhaps Paris. The government announced it would make a statement on Cyprus and asked the Greek chargeé d'affaires, who has been discreetly ostracized since Greece's withdrawal of its ambassador a year ago, to meet Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd "in a few days...