Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only some six months earlier after a quiet meeting in Stockholm with U.S. Minister Herschel Johnson and Iver Olson, representative of Franklin Roosevelt's War Refugee Board in Sweden. Olson and Johnson put the mission to Wallenberg simply: Would he go to Budapest as a member of the neutral Swedish-legation staff and, using U.S. funds, try to save Hungary's remaining 300,000-odd Jews (prewar Hungarian Jewish population: 800,000) from Nazi gas chambers or slave-labor camps? Wallenberg was warned that if the Germans or the Hungarian puppet government learned of his work, nothing could...
...Energy. Wallenberg went. He arrived in Budapest listed officially as third secretary of the Swedish legation, his luggage bulging with information on Hungarian underground agents and secretly pro-Allied officials of the Hungarian government. Operating with enormous zeal and energy, he persuaded Hungarian officials that if a Jew claimed neutral citizenship he should not be deported until the truth of his claim had been established. This done, he promptly affixed to the homes of some 20,000 such Jews signs that read: "Under the Protection of the Swedish Legation." He rented 32 houses in Budapest in the name...
...roller of sweating supporters, Fignole pressured the National Assembly as it tried to choose between a "revolutionary" or a "constitutional" successor to the presidency. "A bas Déjoie!" shouted the throng. Déjoie hastily called off the dying strike. Unimpressed, the Assembly chose for provisional President a neutral lawyer named Franck Sylvain. It was a popular choice: as a judge during Magloire's regime, Sylvain earned a reputation for courage by ruling in an important lawsuit against a presidential favorite...
...story in Rechnitz and in many another border town of the nation which more than any other has opened its heart and its hearths to refugees from Hungary. Committed to formal neutrality by the treaty that drove the Russians out of their country less than two years before, the people of Austria have been far from neutral toward the refugee Hungarians. Alone of all nations, they welcomed the halt, the blind, the sick and the aged among the refugees and did not seek to pick among them...
...Summing up the case for the Common Market, Mollet cried eloquently: "How often between an America sometimes too impulsive, some-times too slow to understand the perils, and a Soviet Union, disquieting and often menacing, have we wished for the existence of a united Europe, a world force not neutral but independent. This dream, this hope is today within our grasp. Have we the right to let it escape...