Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quote a top Washington diplomat as saying that it is a hard political choice between Indonesia and The Netherlands (in the West Irian dispute), since Indonesia has threatened to go Communist if they don't get things their way. It must be encouraging for the Western allies to realize that the U.S. has become so weak that it is at the point of allowing blackmail. If the U.S. has to make a choice, why not do it on its presumed high moral standards, of which it so frequently boasts...
...Washington diplomat" may be right about Indonesia's going Communist in the Dutch-Indonesian conflict. Ever since Sukarno has been president in Indonesia (1945), nationalism has been equivalent to opportunism. After Dutch West New Guinea, Indonesia's next targets will be British West Borneo, Portuguese Timor and Australian East New Guinea...
...prime task of next week's summit conference is to overcome this unhappy blend of fear, cynicism and narrow self-interest and to give new vitality and strength to the NATO alliance. No one could plot this new course except statesmen and diplomats. But the man who knows most about the terrain ahead and who must lead NATO along the course the summiteers lay down is a lean, greying figure in U.S. Air Force blue. More than any statesman. General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties...
...Washington, State Department Spokesman Lincoln White declared Laos had embarked on "a perilous course." But another veteran U.S. diplomat added: "Don't write Laos off to the Communists yet. There'll be time enough to do that when it happens. After all, this is not the first time in history that a country has admitted Communists to its government and still survived...
...that "it is to the U.S.'s interest to maintain the present high level of exports to Mexico. But how can Mexico keep up its imports if the U.S. cuts our ability to pay for them, if we get less for our zinc and lead?" Concluded ex-Diplomat Henry Holland, who was the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief until last year: "InterAmerican trade is in greater danger than at any time in years...