Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference, was made Premier in 1955. It was Dong, speaking before North Viet Nam's 366-man National Assembly in 1965, who first spelled out Hanoi's now famous "four points" for the settlement of the war, stipulating U.S. withdrawal and a neutral, reunified Viet Nam "in accordance with the program" of the Viet Cong...
...proposed an oceanic end to the war. Addressing Hanoi-as well as the voters at home-he declared: "You force us to fight, but you have only to say the word for our quarrel to be buried beneath the waves." The President suggested that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any" for the U.S. and North Viet Nam to begin negotiations-"so long as one did not insist that the other walk on water and work a miracle alone...
...roots movement has been established, the final responsibility lies with the bureaucrats--unless there is a revolution. But today there is no grass roots movement directed toward economic reform and asking politicians for such radical changes with nothing on your side except rationality is a tactical mistake. Taking a neutral position on the war means giving up all chances at building a grass roots movement in the near future...
...University cannot be neutral, it can at least find ways of making itself more open to dissent, recognize the limits of neutrality, tire of its rhetoric and its high-sounding phrases. If we can get an honest discussion of these issues, people will be more reflective...
Smithies rejected the notion that Harvard had taken any but the straighet-and-neutral path toward the Vietnam war. "I certainly would say Harvard hasn't taken an active role in supporting the war," he said. "I don't think you can live in this world without some degree of complicity...