Word: neutralities
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...true Italy is one of the nations which gave the civilization to the world but not such uncivilized, blood-thirsty crazed man like you. What do you know about France's and England's strength? And you still say Italy is neutral because Germany alone is more than able to administer to the two thieves of Versailles...
...surgeons were truly impersonal (or, one might say, truly neutral) they would not heed the calls of distress from suffering humanity when they themselves were otherwise engaged in watching the ticker, or playing bridge, or writing thoughtful treatises on the insanity of their fellow men. They would not go to the considerable trouble and risk of using their knives to remove the malignant growths in the body of civilization. They would always find comfortable refuge behind that ancient question, "Am I my brother's keeper...
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...
...last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...