But as the neutral countries themselves took a more flexible line, the old British argument was wearing decidedly thin.
But Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Sainovic has said foreign observers would be invited to monitor the elections but only from sympathetic or neutral countries.
Even neutral countries, however, participated quietly on one side or the other, Spain and Switzerland closer to the Axis Powers, and the others helping the Allies.
These are the assets that might well have been transferred out of the countries of residence, to safer institutions in neutral countries, or in Britain and America.
Lawyers are still pursuing cases against German banks and European insurers, including Swiss ones, and may soon move on to banks in other neutral countries, such as Sweden.
One way of wrong-footing Mr Milosevic would be to offer to take part in a run-off, but only one properly supervised by outside observers from respected neutral countries, such as Sweden or Switzerland.
The report, Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue, includes a comprehensive media study that found the media in both Muslim majority countries and non-Muslim majority countries are more neutral about their own side than about the other side.
The example of Senegal (and, indeed, the strongly worded, morally neutral advertising campaigns conducted in many western countries in the 1980s), shows the value of early action as surely as do Dr Anderson's models.
The bottom line is that enabling climate-neutral consumption in the developing world is vastly more important than reducing consumption in developed countries.
The finding fits with evidence from seven other countries that have had similar carbon tax shifts in place for over a decade, resulting in neutral or slightly positive effects on GDP.
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