Word: neutrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull put the Declaration of Panama on a strictly if-as-and-when basis: if belligerent France, Great Britain or Germany decline to recognize the American Neutral Zone, the American Republics will "consult," and see what is to be done next...
...were to be a peace by negotiation, where would the principals meet? Presumably some neutral country would supply the hotel room and presumably it would best be accomplished by doing the negotiating quietly and then springing the deal. Who would the principals be? Not Hitler, not Daladier, not Chamberlain. They could not meet anywhere obscurely, for one thing, and the Munich aura hangs too heavily over their heads...
Aimless War? To many & many a neutral, far from having any established peace aims, the Allies do not yet seem to have propounded very satisfactory war aims. King George VI said they were fighting lest "justice and liberty among nations ... be ended," an ideology echoed by Premier Daladier. The British Government is legally at war simply because it had an assistance treaty with violated Poland...
...need no further declaration of aims. They-like the Germans-are simply fighting for their lives; their war aim is to win the war. The chief benefit to the Allies in drawing up a set of war aims would be to satisfy, and perhaps enlist the sympathies of, neutral onlookers -particularly in the U. S. For the perplexed U. S. people strongly desire to know exactly what kind of world it is that the Governments of Great Britain and France are fighting to protect or gain. Nowhere was this U. S. perplexity better expressed than in a letter to that...
...nights ago I was in Berlin and the blackout there was one hundred percent, really pitch black," reported a neutral diplomat who last week arrived in Paris. "By comparison with Berlin, what the French call a 'blackout' has left Paris still La Ville Lumière (the City of Light...