Quotes About Neutrality

Thousands of left-wing volunteers from all over Europe, along with many Americans and Canadians, answered the Spanish Republic's call for help and were supported by arms shipments, military advisers, and air force pilots from the Soviet Union. The governments of England, France, and the United States maintained a hypocritical neutrality, embargoing arms shipments and volunteers to both sides.

Describe the situation as you see it without exaggerating, making judgments, or explaining how you feel about it.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Bush felt fortified in his resolve when he stopped by Rice's office one day that week while she was meeting with Elie Wiesel, the famed Holocaust survivor. Bush had just read Michael Beschloss's book The Conquerors, about how Franklin Roosevelt and other leaders failed to act to stop the Holocaust. "I'm against silence," Wiesel told him. "I'm against neutrality because it doesn't ever help the victim. It helps the aggressor.

I believe that all Spaniards?—even those fighting us—wish that this war could have been settled one way or another by Spaniards alone. We never wanted our country to become a battleground for foreign powers.