Word: neutralists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister." (The U.S. State Department was resolutely backing him.) Since then, Diem has reorganized his army, defeated and routed the French-supplied guerrilla sects that waged open war on his government and seen a freely elected National Assembly installed in Saigon. Diem's success has also attracted such neutralist-minded Asian leaders as Burma's U Nu. This week Diem will arrive in Washington to call on President Eisenhower in his first U.S. visit since the two years (1951-53) he spent here in self-imposed exile from the French at the Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Lakewood...
...than one-fourth of all the free world's population, SEATO partner Pakistan got almost 60% ($108 million) of U.S. funds. India, whose population is almost five times as large as Pakistan's, got a U.S. allocation of $60 million in 1956. One reason for the disparity: neutralist India chooses not to qualify for U.S. military and defense support programs...
Certain to stir up some of foreign aid's purest theorists is the report's conclusion that "a higher priority should be given to those countries which have joined in the collective-security system"-meaning that such neutralist nations as India and Yugoslavia would be far down on the list. The Fairless argument: Other countries have a right "to take whatever course they believe to be in their own national interest. Our Government is obligated to do likewise, and we should marshal our resources to that...
...Umma al Arabia-"the Arab nation"-which would extend from Cairo and Damascus to Baghdad and Amman, and of a role in the Arab world searching for a hero. It was a first warning to the few who read it. He began covertly, then more openly, to play the neutralist game of East against West. He first welcomed, then suddenly denounced, the U.S.-sponsored Baghdad Pact. He refused to sign a military-aid agreement with the U.S. on the ground that its provisions for supervision were "too much like colonization." He fell under the flattering spell of Chou...
...advantages of being a Nehru-type "neutralist" were altogether too tempting for Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 34, whose intentions sometimes exceed his experience. His fragment of fractured French Indo-China, a country the size of Kansas, was in line to receive economic aid from both West and East. As usual, the U.S. was first with the mostest ($88 million in two years). New hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious...