Word: neutralities
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...into Ethiopia; they have watched Dictator Hitler's Storm Troops calmly goosestep into the demilitarized Rhineland zone (TIME, March 16, 1936), and France form a pact with godless Stalin (TIME, May 13, 1935) whom Belgians, most of them devout Roman Catholics, hate. More recently they have watched 27 neutral nations ignominiously fail to let Spain destroy itself unassisted...
...necessity both agreed to release Belgium from he promise to defend Britain and France from attack, but maintained their pledge, from motives of self-interest, to fight if Belgim is invaded. Apart from being bound by the Covenant of the League of Nations, Belgium is thus virtually as "neutral...
...Mussolinis and Stalins. Il Duce with a characteristic gesture last week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position to estimate its exactness. Laymen and journalists noted that Italy's charges amount to saying that Socialist Premier Blum, while prating of neutrality...
...stain of the "Little Caporetto." Il Duce's newsorgans smeared Russia, France and Mexico with charges that those Governments have run arms to the Spanish Leftists in a whole list of instances which the Rome press hotly particularized, roasting especially "France's flagrant violations of the neutral Non-intervention accord signed at London...
...Mussolini had to decide either to pull out his Italian legions in defeat or hurl in large numbers of Italian regulars. At week's end Il Duce's problem was intensified by signs of rebellion in the Rebel ranks. From sources so many and so diverse that neutral observers like the New York Times, crack London Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall believed them came stones c widespread trouble among General Franco's men: In Spanish Morocco 30 officers of the Tetuan aircraft post were shot for conspiracy; at Malaga 20 Italian carabineers were lined up against a wall...