Word: neutralistic
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...Pearson ably demonstrated the technique of the international honest broker, though his interventions sometimes got him labeled as a neutralist in the U.S. When Red Chinese armies marched into Korea, and the U.S. proposed a hard U.N. resolution that Britain feared would extend the war, Pearson frankly told the U.S. that its policy was about "to go off the rails." Then he nudged Commonwealth Prime Ministers, meeting in London, closer to the U.S. position, and a compromise resolution was passed. Conceded a U.S. diplomat: "We would never have taken so much arm-twisting from anyone but Mike...
Returning home early from a party at the King's residence in Vientiane. Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena, 47, and his wife drew up before their newly renovated villa. On guard was a protective screen of soldiers from the neutralist army of Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma. As Quinim mounted the steps, one of the soldiers stepped forward and fired a blast from his submachine gun that killed Quinim and seriously wounded his wife...
...bitterness and envy. Unlike most other Laotian politicians, he did not belong to a rich or princely family. He made a lot of money as a merchant and investor, but in politics he was always a man of the left; though officially a member of Souvanna Phouma's neutralist party, his line was usually indistinguishable from that of the Communist Pathet Lao. Quinim was widely blamed for splitting the neutralist ranks and for fostering the resentments and dissensions that led to the February assassination of a neutralist colonel in the Plaine des Jarres...
...signed confession, Quinim's assassin, a lance corporal named Chy Kong, charged Quinim with trying to overthrow the government and bribing neutralist officers to defect to the Pathet Lao forces encamped in the Plaine des Jarres, where at week's end fighting broke out that caused 20 casualties. Asked if he agreed that Quinim had been proCommunist, Premier Souvanna Phouma replied simply: "He is dead. Peace to his soul...
Chinese expansion and dominance in South East Asia, not a native, nationalist communism, poses the greater threat to American security. A unified Vietnam--even if it were Communist--could be far more stable and better suited to the long-run interests of the U.S. than a neutralist Laos trembling in the shadow of its Chinese neighbor...