Word: neutralism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BERLIN, Nov. 28--Mayor Willy Brandt today won firm backing from Western leaders in his fight against the Soviet attempt to turn West Berlin into an unarmed neutral city...
Exactly a week later Dulles warned the neutral nations that they were staring Communist takeover in the face. Moreover, their dalliance with the Soviets and their rejection of Western collective security measures might change their new-found independence to nothing more than "a brief interlude between the rule of colonialism and the harsh dictatorship of Communism...
...process they had to set up new absolutes. In Russia the idea of the Kingdom of God was transformed into the vision of the classless society; Japan instituted emperor-worship and the messianic mission of the Japanese people. Bishop Newbigin believes that technical culture is not religiously neutral. If it does not keep its roots in the Christian faith, it will have to find a new absolute, and will become demonic...
Because of the presently stalemated fragility, the proposals to form a united neutral Germany, and perhaps a neutral Central European bloc, have been voiced with increasing frequency. These proposals are predicated on what appears to be the reasonable belief that although Russia would like to communize Europe, allied strength will dissuade her from taking any step which would result in annihilation. The United States nuclear arsenal would guarantee the buffer region...
...other issues. If disarmament could be agreed upon, then many of the hurdles in the path of reunification could be removed. Until that time, partial demilitarization of Central Europe as envisaged in the Eden and Rapacki plans may be a healthy temporary move. It would not leave Germany a neutral unit helpless before Soviet subversion, but it might lower the tension to some degree and stimulate further disarmament...