Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discomfiture was greeted with open glee. RUSSIANS RIP AMERICAN FACE, headlined Bangkok's Sathiraphab, and in Beirut a university professor said wryly of his Arab students: "You would have thought they launched it themselves." But nowhere was the beeper's impact so ominous as in the neutral nations of Afro-Asia, where hundreds of millions of uncommitted minds waver between East and West. Its message, said the London Economist last week, was a simple one: "We Russians, a backward people ourselves less than a lifetime ago, can now do even more spectacular things than the rich and pompous...
Theoreically, it is of little importance that the U.S. failed to be first into space. As long as we have the potential, the actual event is relatively minor. From a propaganda viewpoint, though America has been vastly outdistanced and stands a good chance of losing the confidence of some neutral countries. From another side, however, the satellite may serve to awaken America from its complacency and bring a sense of urgency to our military and scientific efforts...
King by Election. In 1905, after centuries of subjugation to one or another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This...
...Netherlands Reformed Church: "There is a new search for authority in the world today [and ] insofar as we are slaves and spokesmen, the minister has the same authority as Christ." This authority is "total and unlimited, does not admit others beside it. and you can't be neutral when...
...French were not the only salesmen on the road. Two Algerian rebel leaders showed up in neutral Stockholm. Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas, in Montevideo, announced: "We have decided to knock at all Western doors, even of the United States. But if our appeals are not crowned with success, we will go to Moscow to embrace the serpent itself, ready for anything that will obtain liberty, just like Morocco and Tunisia...