Word: neutrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FUND TO REIMBURSE GERMANY FOR LOSS CAUSED BY UNNEUTRAL PRESIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE IN ORDER TO LET WORLD KNOW THIS NATION IS NEUTRAL IF THE PRESIDENT IS NOT. I'LL GIVE FIVE DOLLARS...
During the late war as well as in the present one, it appears to be the privilege of the war craft of belligerent nations to stop and search (under threat of fire) the vessels of neutral countries. This privilege extends to the examination of the mails, the identity of crew and passengers as well as cargo. Such "highjacking" takes place upon the high seas and, I understand, even in neutral waters where possible...
...During World War 1, U. S. Secretaries of State Bryan and Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great...
...President and Secretary of State want immediately everything you can send them about the matter [bombing of Warsaw]. From your military attache and other members of your mission, understand? Categorical declarations, and categorical declarations by all members of the Embassy, as detailed as possible; and then, additionally, declarations by neutral diplomats. They want to have it as a basis, understand? You know what's going on in the United States...
...Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned and invoked a clause of the Constitution which permits the President to name his successor, naming the former Governor of Pomorze Province, a politically neutral lawyer, Wladislaw Raczkiewicz. At the Embassy the oath of office was solemnly administered to President Raczkiewicz, provoking the Nazi press to scream, "All this is a Polish farce...