Word: neutralists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring maneuvers could bring dangerous tensions to the Balkans. Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, who had been enjoying a rapprochement with the Soviets, has withdrawn to his old neutralist stance and begun to strengthen his country's defenses. The Hungarian reaction has been different from all others, probably because the Czechoslovak episode revived the country's own memories of a far more harsh repression 13 years ago. In hopes of escaping a second crackdown, the Hungarians are keeping the political trappings in place, but at the same time are quietly pursuing cultural and economic reforms...
Compromise Figure. A possible cause for the bad case of jitters in Saigon was the return of Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh after four years in exile. Ousted in 1964 because of alleged "neutralist" tendencies, Minh was brought back by President Thieu as part of a national reconciliation effort (TIME, Sept. 27). That did not sit well with some South Vietnamese hawks, who worry about a U.S. sellout and who fear popular Big Minh as an ideal figure for eventual compromise with the Communists. Vietnamese Deputies and Senators began receiving un signed letters that branded Minh a tool...
...sooner or later embrace all the countries of Southeast Asia, providing for the neutralization of not only Viet Nam but also Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and perhaps even Malaysia. Pfaff would include Thailand (and to a lesser extent Malaysia) to balance off North Viet Nam's presence in the neutralist bloc with a prospering, pro-Western nation...
...long-announced 14 points in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops and bases and the creation of an independent, neutral South Viet Nam. Still, nine of its ten leaders have never been identified as Communists or as having had close association with the Viet Cong-although all have neutralist or leftist backgrounds. Chairman Trinh Dinh Thao, 66, a Saigon lawyer and onetime partner of Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the N.L.F., was held at least once by Saigon authorities for championing peace movements unacceptable to the government; Thich Don Hau, the Alliance's vice chairman, was a leader...
...partly justifying the Yiddish proverb that Irving Howe recently directed at him: "He wants to dance at all the weddings." Lynd winces before the untender either-ors of history. He cannot settle flatly even on Viet Nam. "Were I in Viet Nam, I think I might be an anguished neutralist Buddhist some place," he has confessed to an interviewer...