Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennan came with the conference last September of "nonaligned nations" in Belgrade. After assurances from Tito and top officials that Yugoslavia aimed to act as a "moderating force" on the other countries at the conference, Kennan flatly reported to Washington that Tito's speech would be genuinely neutral. But he did not know that when Russia resumed nuclear tests, Soviet Ambassador Alexei Epishev had called on Tito and left him convinced that Khrushchev needed his support. Unaware of the switch, Kennan was shocked and infuriated by Tito's anti-Western speech, which defended Khrushchev and took the Moscow...
...three posts, Kennan's is probably the trickiest, because of Yugoslavia's own anomalous situation-a thoroughgoing Communist state that broke with Stalin in 1948, has been heavily aided by the West ever since, is now generally subservient to Khrushchev in foreign policy but proclaims itself neutral. To start with, Ambassador Kennan hoped Tito Communists would be more "objective" than Soviet comrades, that with care and cultivation Tito might be induced to practice true neutrality. For four months, says an old Belgrade hand, Kennan "thought his personality and techniques were reshaping Tito's thinking"-a mistake Historian...
...choked by the militarists in the '30s. The between-the-lines message was to Japanese radicals who are impatient with the legal niceties of democracy, which they regard merely as imposed by the U.S. occupation. One of his sharpest arguments: to students who yearn for both neutrality and disarmament, Reischauer points out that the two do not go together: "To be neutral, you must be prepared to be highly militarized, like Sweden or Switzerland...
...national central organizations of the youth and students of Finland, a council the neutrality of which is known and recognized all over the world" wanted protest "a situation, where the endeavour of our country to keep neutral has not been respected and the viewpoint of the representative youth and student organizations has not been taken into consideration," the cable said...
...Neutral Toward Demonstrations...