Word: neutralities
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...strike may be averted but the test will come again in some other way. The whole NRA policy toward labor has been a hodge-podge from the beginning and, while the problem is by no means simple, the role of the Government has until recently been that of a neutral and not a partisan. When the Government becomes a partisan in industrial warfare, only the resort to strikes has been the unhappy answer, with the public getting it on the chin in every instance in the form of higher consumer prices to pay increased costs of production...
...When one considers the weaknesses of human nature and the realities of international life," said Dean Hindmarsh, "most of the plans for international economic sanctions appear to be extraordinarily potent means for universalizing war and conflict. The use of embargo measures by an allegedly neutral state against one of two opposing belligerents constitutes a breach of neutrality and renders the neutral liable...
...lesser luminary, to retort for their profession. One was Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other was Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology. The third was Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories. In a telegram to the meeting President Roosevelt took a nicely neutral position: "The value to civilization of scientific thought and research cannot be questioned. . . . The idea that Science is responsible for the [recent] economic ills can be questioned. . . . "Science makes jobs, began Dr. Compton, by creating entire new industries. Some inventions and the number of jobs for which they are responsible...
...Knox. He laid aside his dog-whip, scudded into Geneva, told the commissioners that Nazi terrorists are already acting as if they own the Saar. To reenforce his 1,100 police, many of whom have been bribed by one faction or another, he demanded a police army of neutral troops. They cannot be French or German or even British or Italian. Commissioner Knox suggested they come from some country that did not sign the Versailles Treaty. The commissioners looked at him with the sad eyes of St. Bernard dogs. Resolute Mr. Knox, whom Saar Nazis accuse of acting like...
...propaganda, organized industry, and science refine the fire of such combat to an intensity calculated to reduce the whole to a whiff of smoke and ashes. The largest nation left extant would be able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns were but puling chitchat in the cradle...