Word: neutralities
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...considered in any way. After a long week- end conference the Foreign Office announced to the Western Powers its new plan for China: The five most important Chinese cities, Tientsin, Tsingtao. Shanghai, Canton, Hankow, were to be taken over by the Powers, who would establish around them neutral zones 15 to 20 miles wide from which all Chinese soldiers and police were to be barred. The Western Powers promptly rejected the plan as a gross violation of Chinese sovereignty...
...Immediate discontinuance of all "acts of violence" on the part of both sides. 2) Immediate discontinuance of all mobilization and preparations for war. 3) Immediate recession of combatants of both nations from points in the Shanghai area wherein there were places of mutual contact. 4) The establishment of neutral zones in the International Settlement which would keep the forces separated and thus protect the Settlement. 5) Commencement of negotiations, following acceptance of the first four points, to settle all differences in accordance with the Kellogg Pact; this to be accomplished with the assistance of neutral and impartial observers...
...depending on how much they can afford to spend for them. The second reason is that the United States is one of the powers involved in the government of the International settlement in Shanghai. The Japanese are making it a base for operations against the Chinese. To maintain strict neutrality we must prevent their doing this, and that means a good deal more than we are doing now. Therefore so long as we do nothing, we are really helping the Japanese. There is no possibility of remaining strictly neutral...
...inactive ever since they were seized by the U. S. and used for troop ships during the War, were offered for sale by the U. S. Shipping Board as scrap. Famed was the escape from British destroyers of the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, freighted with $10,000,000 gold, into the neutral waters of Bar Harbor, Maine...
...time, as well as at present, I beg to inform you that the Academy remained absolutely inactive and did not side either with the actors or producers throughout the attempted Equity strike two years ago. The Academy was most careful at that time to maintain an impartial and absolutely neutral attitude throughout the entire strike...