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With all the world watching, the neutralist leaders meeting in Belgrade abjectly abandoned all title to the role of "conscience of mankind,'' and ran for cover...
Nikita Khrushchev scattered them with one loud boo and the remote thunder of atomic explosion deep inside Russia. After that, it was every neutralist for himself, and the Conference of the Nonaligned Nations was soon lined up in splinters tremulously blown one way or the other. Yugoslavia's President Tito condemned France for failing "to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations on the discontinuance of atomic tests." He was willing to forgive Russia, "because we can understand the reasons adduced by the government of the U.S.S.R." Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah echoed Tito...
...Senior Neutralist Jawaharlal Nehru proved to be the statesman, stubbornly and persistently trying to restore some balance and perspective to the quivering delegates. "The era of classic colonialism is dead," he told them flatly. "Of course it may give us a lot of trouble yet, but essentially it is gone, it is over. Colonialism, racialism are important, but they are overshadowed by this crisis-because if war comes, all else goes." He got surprising support from the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who opposes the Soviet demand for two Germanys since, if he sanctioned the principle of partition...
...neutralist potentates grandly viewed an effusion of fireworks and ended their meeting in a miasma of self-congratulation. But to the U.S., which has given the nations represented at Belgrade more than $8 billion in aid since 1946, the neutrals' failure of nerve was deeply disappointing. It showed that Khrushchev's callous disregard for the neutrals' feelings had paid off. Big, bad Russia had, in fact, cowed them into appeasement. It also proved that, for all their lofty talk, the neutrals are chiefly committed to the profitable middle way-to preserving their "neutrality," at whatever cost...
Nehru came out of his talks with Khrushchev clearly disheartened, warned that the "foul winds of war are blowing" (see THE NATION). But at an Indian embassy luncheon for Nikita, Nehru was more cheerful, back at the old neutralist two-way stand doing business as usual. Thanking the Soviet government for its economic aid to India in a toast, Nehru quipped: "I am afraid that after we receive this assistance, my appetite will grow and I will want to ask for more...