Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Careful to keep his in-between position clear to one and all ("Nasser is a friend of mine"), the Prime Minister laid down at the National Press Club one tough-minded neutral's way out of the Mideast impasse: "1) the substitution of a United Nations force for the American troops now in Lebanon, 2) the holding of free elections under U.N. supervision, and 3) the subsequent establishment of Lebanon as a free and independent state with the status of neutrality internationally guaranteed on the analogy of Austria...
Accidentally Neutral. If there was a world demand for summit talks about the Middle East, the French were in less of a hurry to gratify it. French diolomats blamed the stampede to the summit on an appeasement of British Labor, and thought it bad to base Western policy on an opposition that holds no responsibility. Piqued at first at being excluded from the U.S.-British foray into the Middle East, the French had been congratulating themselves ever since. "It saved France from making a blunder," said Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. The French quickly saw in their accidental neutrality...
...American troops to the Middle East. But there were some sober second thoughts, and subtle shadings. Even in Gamal Abdel Nasser's world, the realization dawned that the Russians had talked big but stayed away. And here and there, a world usually divided arbitrarily into West, East and neutral reacted in much less predictable fashion. Items...
...question of East, West or neutrality, Latin Americans in every capital except Lima voted overwhelmingly and ominously in favor of the enticing neutral position...
...Neutral Pro-West Pro-East...