Word: neutralist
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...West's bid to win neutralist support is bindered by the often-repeated indictment of the United States and its allies as colonialists. Castro's barrage against the "Yankees" could seriously weakes U.S. control over votes of the 19 Latin American nations. Plank believes Castro may have "considerable success in establishing an alliance between the Latin American nations--once a stronghold of U.S. support--and the Afro-Asian group...
During the past five years United States influence in the United Nations has hestically declined. Before 1955, the United States could readily maneuver a two-thirds majority of the General Assembly into action. Since then, the increasing strength of the Soviet Union, the rise of neutralist nations, and the sky support of Latin America have forced the U.S. to realize that American foreign policy and the desires of the world organization are not, in all cases, same...
...Rivals. From the moment they took their seats, the Africans proclaimed that they were their own men, and nobody else's. One after another, they echoed the neutralist declaration of Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio: "Our purpose is not to be drawn into the conflict between the great powers...
...time past, many people, from John Foster Dulles to Nikita Khrushchev, have been inclined to assume that neutralism was the next thing to Communism. In fact, the neutralists are united only by a negative sentiment: Help us, but keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans...
...Floating Vote. Where their self-interest seemed to them to demand it, the Africans would vote against the West, too. But the emergence of the neutralist "floating vote" as the decisive force at the U.N. was something the U.S. could only welcome. (It really had no choice...