Word: neutralities
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...time to stage the final act in this great political and diplomatic drama, from the Franco-Russian point of view for several reasons. Most important of these was the growing friendliness between Germany and England. France and Russia were afraid that if they waited too long England might remain neutral in case of war which would be a fatal blow to their hopes of certain victory over the Central Powers...
...believe that she would not have done precisely the same thing that France and Russia did, if she had been in their positions. In fact earlier in the year 1914 when Germany thought she could count on the aid of Italy, and had high hopes of England's remaining neutral, she was not at all adverse to the possibility of a European war. She did not, however, go so far as to make war inevitable, as France and Russia did. And then during the summer when Germany saw that things were not going as she had hoped and that...
...forth in TIME last week although not then agreed upon, it was that Sweden and Czechoslovakia should resign their Council seats, after which the assembly should elect Poland and "a neutral" (The Netherlands) to fill, these vacancies. That Sweden and Czechoslovakia should have been brought to offer such a sacrifice well illustrates the very real desire for compromise among the nations...
Carried on chiefly by the students of the neutral countries, the campaign to create a better spirit of cooperation and to reconciliate the students of the ex-belligerents, began almost immediately. The C. I. E. Congress at Prague in April 1921 saw the admission as full members of Denmark, England, Finland, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland and Yougolavia. During the following three years the spirit in the C. I. E. was completely changed; the controverseries were more or less settled...
...great a part this moral motive played in the foundation of the European student federations I can demonstrate best by citing the example of the student organizations of the neutral countries. Switzerland, Holland, Denmark and Sweden did not need any organizations for economical reasons. There has been no economical debacle there and if they felt the consequences of the financial disaster in Europe it was not in 1919 or 1920 but later, and certainly not so strongly as Germany or Hungary. Nevertheless in all these neutral countries there grew up a strong centralized student body, and you will agree with...