Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York University laid this interesting ghost, or at least cut it down considerably, by reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing should be tried. Backed by the Office of Naval Research, he organized a two-year experiment that covered the U.S.'s eastern seaboard. During the periods of January to April 1953 and December 1953 to April 1954, Dr. Spar and his assistants...
...Agreed, for no apparent reason other than Sweden's request, to revive a commission to preserve peace between Sweden and the U.S., which was set up in 1914 by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and forgotten since 1944, when the U.S.-appointed neutral member of the commission, Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux of France, died. The President named French Historian Andre Siegfried (America Comes of Age), 79, as the U.S.-appointed neutral representative...
...dilemma is that he likes to see things whole, can swallow neither the fiery threats and promises of the anarchists and Communists nor the sterile programs of the conservatives. He hates poverty, but he also hates violence. As he sees the violence building up, he becomes steadily more neutral. Novelist Gironella shares in this neutrality: unlike most books about the Spanish civil war, Cypresses tries to be scrupulously impartial...
Watered Down. Then what did he mean by his earlier statement that Canada could not remain neutral if war came? "I have said that it would be impossible for either the U.S. or Canada to be neutral if the people of the other country were engaged in a major war," Pearson explained, putting special emphasis on the word major. "It does not mean . . . that whenever the U.S. is engaged in any kind of war, we are at war ... It certainly does not mean that we must participate in limited or peripheral wars...
...mass rescues of World War II. In 1943, when Hitler sent his Gestapo to arrest all Jews in occupied Denmark, the Danes hid the Jewish population in attics, barns and cellars. Danish policemen and fishermen slipped the Jews into waiting fishing smacks that ferried them to the safety of neutral Sweden. Many of the Danish rescuers were caught by the Nazis. but of Denmark's 8,500 Jews, 7,000 were saved. Said Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union: "We Jews have long memories for righteous acts. The moral stature of Denmark and Sweden will ever be recorded...