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Folks who have wondered how neutral a neutralist can get got an ultimate answer from India's Jawaharlal Nehru. In a fantastic bit of purblind observation, the Great Neutral assured a worried world: "People who talk about Communist revolutions are-if I may say so-out of date. So-called international Communism does not really exist today...
...impossible to commemorate adequately the spirit of Budapest last October, but it is also impossible to forget the sacrifice. The fight showed that the Communist system did not and could not fulfill its promises of democracy. The lesson of Hungary for the neutralist nations should have been a significant...
...pass on to the rest of the world, including Russia, scientific information obtained from IGY programs, so it seemed desirable, to the NSC (and to IGY scientists too) to keep Vanguard from getting deeply involved with top-secret military programs. Also, Administration policymakers, in a fit of touchiness about neutralist opinion, wanted to avoid any appearance of using IGY undertakings for military purposes...
...blue banner of the republic. In refugee-swamped Macao, they staged the biggest demonstration since the Reds seized China. In sensitive Hong Kong, far more Chinese showed Nationalist colors on Double Tenth than had displayed the Red flag on the Oct. 1 anniversary of the Communist victory. In neutralist Cambodia, more Chinese shut their shops on the Nationalists' holiday than on the Communists'. Editorialized the New York Times hopefully: "The concept of freedom cannot be killed by Communist maneuver. The new and great days of a truly free China are still to come...
Carried to an extreme, of course, the policy would set arbitrary itineraries for American travelers--shopping sprees in depressed areas, careful avoidance of neutralist or "immoral" nations. In its present phase the Dullesian doctrine entails only punitive measures--passport seizure--for those who defy passport restrictions...