Word: neutralistic
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...should calm some fears regarding Brazil's so-called move into the neutralist camp. This independent action should not be deemed anti-American, but seen as an assertion by a great rising nation, led by a devoted public servant whose past achievements are stellar examples of selfhelp...
...Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi contemptuously: "I cannot understand why the United States is trying to win at a conference what it has already lost on the battlefield." With the talks thoroughly deadlocked, U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman invited the pro-Western Minister of Defense, General Phoumi Nesavan. and "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma to Washington, apparently hoping to get them together on some kind of acceptable coalition government. General Phoumi came, talked to President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. But Prince Souvanna, who has visited Russia twice in recent months, politely declined because...
...some agreement rested on a weekend meeting between the key Laotian princes in Zurich. Up from Nice, where he has been sunning himself, came the U.S.'s favorite Premier, Prince Boun Oum. From Geneva, looking as relaxed as a pair of tourists, came Russia's favorite Premier, "neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, and his brother, "Red Prince" Souphanou-vong, who commands the Pathet Lao. Prince Souvanna greeted his rival warmly and talked in friendly style about getting together on a "broad-based coalition government." The way things were going back home, one diplomat cracked, "Boun Oum will be lucky...
Troika Tripe. By far the biggest stumbling block is the Soviet's demand for a veto. The U.S.S.R. insists that any ban on nuclear tests be policed by a three-headed international commission composed of a Russian, an American and a "neutralist"-any one of whom could veto any action toward inspection. The Soviets call this lovely notion "troika" (see THE WORLD). The West calls it tripe. Says the British delegate at Geneva, Sir Michael Wright: "Troika ends hopes for a nuclear test ban, for controlled disarmament, and-worse still-for any kind of international peace-keeping machinery. This...
Khrushchev could apply an economic squeeze at any time by shutting off aid-but this would turn Nasser even further toward the West. Nasser can justifiably claim to have invented the neutralist gambit of playing East against West and shows no signs of losing his nerve now. Last week delegates from 21 nations gathered in Cairo to plan a big neutralist get-together in September. "We are putting our case before the Asians and Africans," said one official, "so they can see that power politics is practiced by both sides. East as well as West...