Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...harshness of the terms imposed on Germany, arguing that a generous peace was more likely to last. Between the wars, he was out of office for nine years. When war came again, the pro-Hitler Nationalist leader, General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, moved in Parliament that South Africa stay neutral. Smuts defeated him at the polls, led South Africa into the war at Britain's side. Later, as a delegate at San Francisco, he helped write the preamble of the United Nations Charter...
Then Schumacher rose to the attack. By joining the Council of Europe, argued Schumacher, West Germany would serve notice that it had finally abandoned its 17 million East German brothers to Red rule. Schumacher in advance suspected a united Western Europe of turning into a neutral bloc, which would try to concentrate on its own affairs, fail to carry out a vigorous political offensive against the Russians in Eastern Europe. What was needed, said Schumacher, was not a united Western Europe but a united Europe-with a united Germany at its center. But he failed to say how he would...
...never provoke a war, and cheerfully assumed that everybody else knew it too. But did they? Acheson, in London, had discerned a European concern over the way that U.S. military men -arguing before Congress for arms to Europe-had stressed Russian strength, Western weakness and the threat of war. "Neutralism" was spreading in Europe; it was largely an indication that Europe was trying to stand on its own feet and think for itself and that was a good sign; but to the extent that it represented a European desire to find a neutral corner away from two quarreling big powers...
...spoke he came to grips with an insurmountable problem: a cat, addressing dogs, does not dare speak like a dog for fear he will be accused of imitating an Airedale, and dare not speak like a cat for fear of annihilation. There is only one recourse-a dry, neutral marsh-bird tone...
...feet, to do as it pleased. It was reasonable to assume that what a strong, free Europe would decide to do would be to fight Communism, not for the sake of the U.S., but for its own sake. If that assumption involved for the U.S. the risk of a neutral Europe, the risk was not as great as the risk of a weak and divided Western Europe...