Word: neutralistic
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...Semarang, in the heart of Java's Communist belt, President Sukarno of neutralist Indonesia last week delivered his first public report on the trip which he made to the U.S. two months ago. In the audience, at Sukarno's special request, was the able U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, Hugh S. Gumming...
After the speech was finished, Sukarno followed up his pointed innuendoes with an equally pointed gesture. When it came time to leave, he strolled off with his arm about Hugh Gumming. (Also present but unembraced: Soviet Ambassador to Indonesia Dmitry Zhukov.) Clearly, Neutralist Sukarno's U.S. tour had been rewarding-not only for him but for the U.S. as well...
...same forum, the Crown Prosecutor of Ceylon, Neville Kanakaratne, defended his country's so-called "neutralist" foreign policy by asserting that military alliances tend to aggravate tensions while participants lost independence of judgment. He defined Ceylon's foreign attitude as one of "noninvolvement in the military policy of foreign blocs...
...turning point was last spring's elections, in which Communist China spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Burmese Communists win 40 seats from U Nu's ruling Socialists. "Interference of the most brazen kind," a top Burmese neutralist called it. The Burmese have also had their business disenchantments with their cynical Communist trading partners. Despite fine promises of the latest machinery and steel, all the Russians ever sent them in barter for their rice was cement-so much cement that all Rangoon could not hold it. and vast quantities of it were ruined on the docks...
...difficulty with the diplomatic doctrine that Nehru likes to call "nonalignment" is that it has no philosophic basis, no platform; it can only respond. Since the positive objectives of its adherents vary widely, neutralist powers, as Brioni proved, are rarely able to agree on anything but negatives...