Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dennis Fodor have ranged widely over the Iranian countryside. After one trip to the remote rug-making town of Tabriz, McHale had to return to Teheran in "an ancient Russian sedan with weak brakes and uncertain gears. For 15 hours we groaned up hills, whistled down mountain slopes in neutral, while the driver merrily sang Persian war songs and I repeated what I hoped was a perfect act of contrition...
Kennedy presented a new version of the Vice President's overseas travels. "In Vietnam he urged the French to continue to fight. On Formosa he implied our support of an invasion of the mainland of China. In India he questioned Nehru's right to be neutral. In Venezuela his goodwill tour provoked a riot. And in the Soviet Union he argued with Mr. Khrushchev in the kitchen, pointing out that while we may be behind in space, we were ahead in color television. Mr. Nixon may be very experienced in kitchen debate, but so are a great many...
Everywhere that Bobby went, the politicos listened attentively and yielded to his hard sell. But just to be sure, Bobby promised to send in a neutral nonresident coordinator to keep him posted...
Leaving the frustrated and fuming Belgians behind, Hammarskjold turned down the offer of a Belgian jet to Leopoldville, boarded instead a KLM DC-7 to neutral Brazzaville, across the river in French Congo. Crossing the river in a launch, he soon was confronting the Congolese Cabinet. Prodded by sharp telegrams from Lumumba, the Cabinet insistently demanded that Hammarskjold use force if necessary to clear the Belgian troops out of Katanga...
...policy but more by instinct, the powers will confine their fighting to "neutral" areas as long as they can. I suspect the "neutrals" realize this and know that there may not be much they can do to prevent it. But they don't have to like...