Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticism. He calls, essentially, for three things: (1) strengthening of the NATO alliance, accompanied by an integration of diplomatic policy, (2) bringing nuclear weapons partly under NATO control (with NATO participating in arms control discussions as a unit), and (3) unification of Germany, probably as a military neutral, but closely tied economically to NATO...
...Swiss government cherishes its neutrality as a Saint Bernard guards its brandy cask. Last week, after scratching noisily and growling discreetly, the Swiss finally got across the point that they really did not want President Kennedy to appoint his old Palm Beach neighbor and friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss...
...world." Laos, he declared, was "a peaceful country, which for more than 20 years has known neither peace nor security." Savang Vatthana promised to refrain from any military alliance, to rid Laos of all foreign bases. All he asked was that a commission come in from his neutral neighbors-Cambodia, Burma and Malaya-to stop the fighting and to identify and denounce any foreign interventionists...
...that if the Russians called off their open assistance to the Pathet Lao rebels in the north, the U.S. would even be willing to pull out its 162-man team of soldiers in civilian clothes presently attached to the Royal Laotian Army, and to channel future aid through the neutral commission...
Tough Side. In a last effort to save the King's gambit, President Kennedy himself made a direct appeal by letter to Cambodia's nervous young Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Alternatively, there was talk of finding some other neutral nations to fill out the commission. But the U.S. had obviously bent about as far as it intended to. In fact, the more reliable anti-Communists of Southeast Asia were openly miffed. "The neutrals sidestep the responsibilities in the area and the really tough decisions," griped a Thai diplomat. "And then you keep inviting them back to settle everybody else...