Word: neutralizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have the Soviet leaders changed? One view is that their new stance is purely tactical, aimed at encouraging other European lands, particularly West Germany, to take a neutral position beside Austria. But encouraging neutrality is a substantial retreat from the previous Soviet tactic of swallowing up and controlling satellites. As last week's pilgrimage to Belgrade demonstrated. Marshal Tito's current brand of "neutrality" is deplored by the Soviet Union. The prevailing view in high U.S. circles is that the Soviet leaders were forced to change because their previous policies stopped working...
While it faces a stronger and strengthening Western alliance, the Soviet Union also is plagued by home-grown problems. Its agricultural program is admittedly in serious trouble; its industry is seriously strained by the constant pressure of military production. Help to Communist China is a heavy drain; pledges to neutral lands are nagging overdue notes. Interlaced with and more important than these economic woes is the Soviet Union's political trouble. Inside the Kremlin, the struggle for power at the top still goes on; there is nothing in Marxist theory or Soviet history that can guide the Russian ruling...
Work on the "neutral belt" started in early spring when Andrei Gromyko, Molotov's deputy, turned up in Stockholm to sound out the neutral Swedes. Then came the Austrian Treaty, with its show of Russian reasonableness in exchange for Austrian neutrality. Next on the Soviet list is Tito's Yugoslavia, a land which Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin described in 1949 as "a camp of imperialism and fascism" transformed by "Judas Tito and his malevolent deserters . . . into a Gestapo prison." This week, the same Bulganin and Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev will visit the "Gestapo prison" with what Khrushchev calls...
Russia's new neutral look was admirably styled to appeal to Europe's current passion for distensione, or relaxation of tension. So widespread is this sentiment that few European politicians are willing to disappoint it. Britain's election campaign involves a contest over which of the big parties wants negotiations more eagerly; no French Cabinet dare take office without affirming the same goal...
Surprising Resistance. Professional neutralists, e.g., France's Le Monde, thought they saw their ship coming in. Le Monde advised Frenchmen to adopt "an active neutrality," and Combat predicted: "The word neutral will be forced on all those who discredited it." Yet the surprising fact in last week's news was the unsuspected strength of the European resistance to neutral belts, Russian model. French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay took to TV to tell the French people that "German neutrality "would offer Germany all the temptations of the seesaw policy between East and West, the disastrous effect of which...