Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Irish diplomat said, "He is a very difficult man to understand. I imagine it must be a trying experience for him to appear in this kind of a parliamentary body. He is used to making speeches to unanimous audiences which give him nothing but applause." Another neutral delegate added, "I suppose he really thought he could take the U.N. by storm, especially the uncommitted nations. But he ended up with a left-wing African publicly criticizing him, and the Assembly applauding the criticism...
...usual mark of the neutral is to abstain on issues tied closely to the cold war. When the Soviet Union moved to debate the flights of the U-2 and RB-47, the U.S. won the balloting 54 to 10, but one third of the U.N. membership abstained, including countries generally considered pro-Western (Austria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia...
...Fence. Washington itself has moved closer to Britain's always pragmatic attitude that, as long as there are fences, there will be fence-sitters and each should be dealt with in terms of his size, influence and fence-sitting position. The British felt that Dulles' "Neutrality is immoral" policy was unnecessarily dogmatic. Some Britons now think Eisenhower has gone unnecessarily far in the other direction by urging neutrality on the African states. Complained one: "We didn't bring Nigeria up to be neutral, and we bloody well don't want her to be neutral...
Diplomat Parsons reportedly warned Premier Souvanna that there would be no resumption of U.S. military aid if he persisted in bringing the Pathet Lao into a coalition government. Shrugged the Premier: "If the U.S. doesn't like our neutrality, we will have to seek aid elsewhere." Parsons reminded the Premier that the Communists "are not interested in neutral governments, only in having Communist governments...
...Laos' fall affected no one but itself, it might not matter. But on the tense border between Communism and the free world, only the strong can be truly neutral. The U.S. worry about Laos was not over its neutrality but its strength...