Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe, Communist strength is down. In the Middle East, Arab nationalism is for the first time beginning to show substantial misgivings about Communism's brotherly support. Not long ago those Misters In-Between-Nehru, Nasser and Tito-were neutral in Moscow's favor; now they all have their doubts...
...Chou himself was forced to render tribute to Khrushchev for his "correct leadership" as a party theorist. About one new idea from the busy brain of Nikita Khrushchev Chou was significantly silent. In tossing out ideas for all kinds of Soviet-style disarmament plans, Khrushchev proposed an atom-free neutral zone in the Pacific, vaguely defined but seeming to include Red China, Japan, and the U.S. testing areas in the Marshalls. One obvious interpretation: Khrushchev too is not anxious to have his big and impetuous Chinese brothers admitted to the world's nuclear club...
...Malta, site of the Royal Navy's main base in the Mediterranean. Unable to satisfy the voracious demands of the island's unpredictable, Oxford-educated former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (who last year wanted to incorporate Malta into Britain itself, but now talks about making it a neutral port guaranteed by the U.N. Security Council), and unwilling to grant independence to the rock-bound island that must import nine times as much as it exports, the British suspended the 1947 constitution that allowed the 320,000 Maltese to elect their own representatives. Henceforth the British Governor will appoint...
...neutral observers were permitted to watch the ballot-counting...
...same is true of the second objection, that no neutral observers were allowed to watch the balloting. Rightly or wrongly, this is a standard Election Committee procedure. Like the unwillingness to publicize election totals, it stems from a reluctance to embarass unsuccessful candidates...