Word: flottement
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...that almost all U.S. allies seemed to share was the uneasy (and exaggerated) suspicion that Dwight Eisenhower-and hence U.S. foreign policy-would be in a state of drift from now until election time, and that the U.S. had already suffered a fall in prestige. French diplomats talked of "flottement" (vacillation) and the British of "vacuum." The politest way of expressing this was the London Daily Telegraph's feeling that Ike was a "consolidator," while Kennedy or Nixon would be "innovators." Under either Kennedy or Nixon, one ingredient of the Western alliance would soon be missing...
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