Word: neutralities
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During the past six years of the neutrality seesaw, three schools have fought to control U. S. peace policy: 1) the "sanctionist" school, led by former Secretary of State Stimson, aims to keep the U. S. out of war by penalizing aggressor nations which start wars-depriving them, but not their victims of access to U. S. resources and credits; 2) the isolationist school, headed by some 40 Senators, argues that it is not the business of the U. S. to act as judge of international morals-let the U. S. keep out of war by having nothing...
...historic neutrals might thus win a victory by default. If so, they would have to reckon with the possibility of the victory being hollow-for, as 1917 proved, no nation can be neutral if its Administration chooses to take sides, or if its people take sides. In the present pre-war world there are few conflicts in which the U. S. people are neutral at heart. Their special neutrality is a basic disinclination to commit mass murder and be its victim. But there can be no guarantee of neutrality in any words, whether of mandatory legislation or of traditional international...
...known for certain who may fight whom; in stacking up the armed forces of the world against each other it is not certain for example whether Japan is to be counted as one of the Axis powers, or because of her involvement in China she may remain neutral ; it is equally uncertain whether Russia may belong to the Democratic front or be a neutral; it is even uncertain whether the U. S. will be a neutral or a member of the Democratic front...
...with the Japanese authorities getting bolder and bolder in their demands for control of the Shanghai International Settlement, it began to appear that the Japanese were becoming desperate about the war still dragging on in China, just as in 1917 the Germans began to be desperate enough to torpedo neutral shipping again. A Shanghai spokesman hinted, however, that U. S. ships would escape the search-&-seizure methods applied to ships of other nationalities. That was understandable, since the U. S. has in the Pacific the only Navy that could protect its seagoing nationals...
...same time, in Ankara the Kamutay (Turkish parliament) unanimously approved the alliance. Premier Refik Saydam told the deputies that Turkey had once thought that the country's best course was to remain neutral, but that recent aggressions in the Balkans had made neutrality impossible. Not forgotten, moreover, was the fact that Italy possesses the heavily armed Dodecanese Islands, only a few miles off Turkey's mainland...