Word: neutralistic
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...that old villain "colonialism," thus improving Communist China's character by blackening the West's. From such a conference, Nehru would emerge as the spokesman for the world's colored races, the mediator between East and West, the apostle of peace, the leader of a mighty neutralist brood...
...JOHN KOTELAWALA, 58, Ceylon's Prime Minister, is a man Nehru tends to patronize, and others to underrate. A neutralist, he first conceived the idea of the Colombo Powers (India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon), the group of ex-colonies who won their independence after World War II and banded together this year to sponsor the conference at Bandung. Though he opposes SEATO and wishes Chiang Kai-shek would exile himself from Formosa, Sir John insists that "there is no purpose in standing neutral for the benefit of the wrong party.'' On a tour...
...about the Far Eastern crisis. Although the United States is committed to a peaceful settlement of the crisis, Congressmen, State Department officials, and military authorities have spent much of their time discussing the frightening alternative. The idea of atomic bombs falling on China's densely populated cities has alarmed neutralist-minded Asians everywhere, and many non-Asians as well. "Massive retaliation" may be an eye-catching slogan, but it is time that the Administration re-evaluated its applicability to the facts of possible war in Asia...
...Socialists in Britain, which stands for mild socialism and pitches its appeal to the industrial workers, who are mostly Indians. The parties that had stirred the most anxious interest before the poll finished up as also-rans: the Communist-supported People's Action Party and the well-heeled, neutralist Democratic Party, both of which appealed almost exclusively to Singapore's predominant (80%) community of overseas Chinese...
...Little Biscuit. In France, the Yalta phrase that most chagrined a proud and sensitive nation was Winston Churchill's offer to throw France "a little biscuit" of an occupier's rights in Germany. The neutralist Le Monde seized on the phrase: ''The truth is that in a world where only material power counts, our pretensions at playing the fourth big power were judged ridiculous by the three others because they really were." Le Monde saw it as a parallel to Sir Winston's recent letter to Pierre Mendès-France. warning that if Paris...