Word: neutralists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harshly spurning a U.S.-British-French 'proposal for a Big Four foreign-ministers' meeting in Lugano, Switzerland. That note, apparently drafted by underlings in Foreign Minister Molotov's absence, was patently a blunder. Its truculence "shocked the world," as the U.S. State Department put it; any neutralist could plainly see that the Russians did not want to reach agreement with the West...
Weakness in the anti-Communist camp is broader than U.S.British conflict. Often it has been the result of division and indecision inside the U.S. Government. But as the U.S. position under Eisenhower and Dulles became clearer and more consistent, it was bound to come into conflict with "neutralist" sentiment among the allies. In the last year of Truman-Acheson, the U.S.-British divergence was growing. It has become sharper...
...neutralist's case begins with a plausible but, in fact, totally fallacious appreciation of the present world situation, which he presents as two ferocious giants, each of them power drunk, locked in mortal combat. Is it not, then, he asks, the path of caution, and even of benignity, to stand apart from the conflict rather than getting dragged in on one side or the other? Instead of making a costly and perhaps futile contribution to a Western defensive system through NATO, why not disengage, and be ready when a suitable moment arises to act as mediator? It is very...
...Fresh Start? What is the point, the neutralist asks, of going into past history-who began the trouble in this place or in that? What matters is the future. Why not, then, make a fresh start under the auspices, in Asia, say, of Mr. Nehru, who has demonstrated his anti-Communism at home by adopting harsh police measures against local Communists, and, at the same time, has managed to keep on good terms with Mao Tse-tung? And in Europe who more fitting than Sir Winston Churchill to meet Malenkov, as he has proposed, and hammer out a modus vivendi...
What is to become of the Bevanites? At the Labor Party conference at Margate last month, Clement Attlee's middle-of-the readers took over the Bevanites' neutralist foreign policy, while rejecting their noisy domestic demands for more nationalization (TIME, Oct. 12). That left the Bevanites with no platform of their...