Word: neutralistic
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...with pressure from many an old friend who might lose a seat, Mister Sam is wavering. He asked Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the Democratic whip, to make a quiet investigation and some recommendations. Then Rayburn let it be known that for the time being he would take a neutralist position. He still has misgivings, believes that the Chelf bill might open the door to further growing pains. "First thing you know," he grumped to a friend, "you'll have 600 members"- which to Mister Sam and nearly everybody but a doomed Congressman is an intolerable and preposterous prospect...
...perfumes in Arabia can do wonders, but the United States government is hardly in a position to express deep regret or shock over the death of Premier Patrice Lumumba. Presumably President Kennedy and Ambassador Stevenson have as intimate a knowledge of world affairs as the Neutralist press, (or indeed, the New York Times) which reported two weeks ago that the Congolese leader was being tortured to death...
...Washington, President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk conferred urgently with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown, who had been hastily summoned from his post, to discuss, among other things, the advisability of returning exiled, neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma to power. In Peking, Red Chinese Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi warned: "If the lawful Laotian government (i.e., the rebels) asked the Chinese government to give aid, I can assure you we would give it." In Paksé, Prince Boun Oum loaded worried Western diplomats on a caravan of elephants and took them on a leisurely tour of surrounding villages, where lithe...
Such Communist threats and blandishments to steer Japan toward the neutralist road are nothing new. But in recent months the pressure has been stepped up, and Japan has shown a new and disconcerting willingness to listen. The Red Chinese, in particular, have spared no efforts. Last week a Red Chinese trade-union delegation beat its way up and down Japan, loudly demanding that Premier Hayato Ikeda "suspend his hostility" toward Red China. And a delegation of 16 top Japanese businessmen flew off to Peking on an economic good-will mission. "World thinking is rapidly shifting," said Managing Director Heigo Fuji...
...astride the central Plaine des Jarres, on the receiving end of a steady Soviet airlift of supplies from North Viet Nam. He concentrated on training his five-battalion force, made up of paratroops, villagers and recruits from the army posts he has captured. He claimed to be only a "neutralist" himself-though he coordinates his attacks with Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...