Word: neutralistic
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...Laos is finished." declared Cambodia's neutralist Prince Norodom Sihanouk-though he himself had called the 14-nation conference in Geneva to try to save it. "It will be completely lost in a few weeks." Rating the chances of saving Laos from Communism at "one in a thousand," the moody prince then departed for a rest on the Riviera. Most of the other big names, including Dean Rusk and Andrei Gromyko, had got away even earlier, leaving the podium to Red China's Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi. He warned that the agreed goal of Laotian neutrality applied...
...could sit only "as observers with the right to speak." Home showed the document to Gromyko, and they jointly announced complete agreement-but the scribbled proviso had somehow disappeared. Feeling betrayed and angry, Rusk cabled Kennedy, who reluctantly decided to go ahead with the conference rather than face the neutralist complaints that the U.S. was "obstructionist...
...more neutral stance. Recently he apologized to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Nikolaev for being unable to like Communism, said he would welcome aid from any source. His apparent intent is not to swing Thailand into the Communist camp, but rather to get more closely in step with his neutralist neighbors (Burma, Cambodia. India), and take out insurance for the day when, conceivably, he might find Thailand increasingly exposed if the present erosion of the West's position becomes a collapse...
...equable hospitality to neutralist leaders, Nasser does not feel neutral about them personally. He does not like Sukarno; a devoted family man himself, he was shocked when, on a previous visit to Cairo, Sukarno asked to be provided with feminine companionship. Nasser finds Ghana's Nkrumah stuck-up, Nehru too preachy. But he likes Toure as "a natural man" (and a Moslem who calls himself Ahmad when in Cairo), and last week Toure came away from Cairo with a $16.8 million loan, repayable in seven years at 2½% interest, plus a $5,600,000 barter trade agreement...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk, had not shown up (but agreed, after some pleading, to come later). As for the Laotians, the Communist side sent two delegations-one headed by a veteran guerrilla representing the Pathet Lao, the other by a onetime Vientiane bookseller who was standing in for self-styled "neutralist'' Prince Souvanna Phouma. The royal government delegation straggled in two days late...