Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talks. As per the book, Wall Street Lawyer Dean did not come out at once with the best U.S. offer. At the end of the first month, he said that the U.S. was ready for Asian neutrals to join the Korean peace conference as "observers." But the Communists wanted Russia included as a neutral, and this Dean would not have. Russia would be "a back-seat driver constantly telling everyone where to go, how to get there, what turn to take . . . We can't have the Soviet Union there like the proverbial mother...
...whether his policies benefit the rest of the world as long as they benefit India and keep her on top in Asia. Nehru truly believes that he can prevent war coming to Asia, and feels positive that he can prevent it from touching India. But he wants to be neutral-not neutralized...
...some of the answers were shaping up. At a recent political dinner in his honor, "Goody" Knight set forth his credo: "I propose to take sides and to make decisions . . . There is a special place in hell for those who, confronted with a real moral crisis, insist on remaining neutral. I have no ambition to achieve such a special place." Afterward the governor's daughter Marilyn, 26, said that she was awed by the crowd's size. Explained the governor: "They didn't come to see us, honey; they came to see the movie stars...
Nehru, though neutral and intending to remain so, insisted that there were merely "differences of approach" between India and the U.S., certainly "no basic chasm." Nixon agreed, praising India's belief in "freedom of speech and religion, justice under law and dedication to peace." He would tell Americans when he got home, said Nixon, that any impression that India leans towards Communism is "completely erroneous." All in all, said Jawaharlal Nehru, Nixon's five-day stay in India was "a very good thing...
...McCarthy's policy of treating allies as satellites could only increase the willingness of those nations to cut loose from the United States to remove their industries, and above all, their man power, their skills and abilities, their industries, and above all their devotion to freedom into the neutral camp. Laying aside the moral wretchedness and the short-sightedness of such a course, it is still fool-hardy: for, while increasing the drain on America's men and money, it would not deter the China trade in the slightest...