Word: neutrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cutting of the Hankow-Peking Railway, about 100 miles north of Hankow, by Japanese cavalry which had completed a 200-mile cross-country drive. Last month the Japanese command boasted that Hankow would be taken by October 1. Last week Chinese resistance had so stiffened that few neutral observers believed the city could be occupied before next month, some believed the Chinese could hold out until the year...
...last week, agents of the Leftist Government disclosed that a scheme to partition Spain-rejected by Barcelona-had been brought up at the Munich parley. During the Czechoslovak crisis General Franco showed himself definitely cool to Germany. Berlin was enraged by an announcement from Burgos that it would remain neutral in case of a European war. This week the Rightist Spanish Government announced that it is "preparing immediate repatriation" of 10,000 Italian troops...
...square miles progressively by October 10. Moreover, plebiscites will now be held under an international commission of five set up by the Big Four, consisting of one Czech, one Briton, one Frenchman, one German and one Italian-thus weighted 3 to 2 on the side of the democracies. Neutral observers predicted: "The Czechs now have a good chance to win most of the plebiscites," which are to be held by November 30. The Commission of Five is empowered to recommend "minor modifications in strictly ethnographical determination of the zones which are to be transferred without plebiscite." An annex...
Anxious queries from French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet were soon answered by British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax with official assurances that the Anglo-French entente has not been scrapped or even weakened by the Chamberlain-Hitler communiqué. Neutral diplomatic experts shrugged, "The terms of the communiqué are indeed so vague that, depending upon circumstances, they can come to mean anything or nothing." Mr. Chamberlain dispatched a formal letter of assurance to M. Daladier...
These mutual insults generated so much heat that finally last week neutral sub-chieftain Abu Khalid arranged a meeting near Jaffa. At the unexpected approach of British troops this meeting broke up, but at a second conference, in the parched hills of northern Palestine, matters were settled amicably. Each chief agreed to allow the other to retain the "Commander-in-Chief" title, but only over separate districts. Neither is now to give the other orders, although "requests for cooperation" will be heeded. To celebrate this "peace" in true Arab fashion, the two chieftains and their henchmen roasted a sheep...