Word: neutralities
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...chauffeur, knowing that Herr Hitler only wanted to ride to the Kaiserhof Hotel 200 yards away, threatened the crowd by racing his engine in neutral, produced an impressive 180 h. p. roar. Gingerly, while police struggled with the cheering crowd, the chauffeur let his clutch part way in. pressed the Mercedes' muzzle against the good-humored crowd which very gradually gave way. The car managed to cover the 200 yards in 15 minutes...
...Wardell, who managed Governor Roosevelt's unsuccessful preconvention campaign in California and Mr. McAdoo who swung the votes at the Chicago convention that nominated Roosevelt. As each candidate claims to be the true apostle of Roosevelt Democracy, the New York Governor could hardly visit the State now and remain neutral...
...Belgium during the War. What madness to resist the Germans! To think that Belgium might have profited?as Holland did, as America did! If only our King Leopold [died 1909] had been alive in 1914 everything would have been different. "Leopold would have claimed our rights as a neutral just as loudly as Albert claimed them. Then when the Germans still came on Leopold would have let them pass without the folly of spilling our young men's blood. Our factories would have been busier than ever. Our honor would have been kept above reproach by King Leopold's protests...
...Hoover Administration. To him more than to any other individual has been credited the Democratic success of the 1930 elections which gave the party the House. No friend of the Roosevelt faction, Mr. Shouse urged States to pick uninstructed delegations to the Chicago convention, insisted that he was personally neutral among the swarms of candidates...
Just north of the city 4,000 Chinese soldiers, reputedly under General Ma, were routed by Japanese who took 500 Chinese prisoners, captured three Chinese armored cars, several pieces of artillery. Neutral observers agree that Manchuria's peasants, terrorized by Japanese soldiers and Chinese guerrillas, have cut down their spring sowing to a point which guarantees a poor crop, threatens famine...