Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best markets. Said U Nu bitterly last month: "Anybody who goes into a barter deal when he could have a cash deal is crazy." The experience has not diminished Bur ma's determination - as a small country with a thousand-mile Chinese border - to stick to official neutralism, but Burma is now becoming neutral against the Com munists. Already Premier Ba Swe's gov ernment has reversed Burma's decision of three years ago to refuse all economic and technical aid from the U.S. The gov ernment has hired a Chicago manage ment firm to help reorganize...
...companies also operate the bulk of their international fleets under foreign flags, but cannot bring home the profits without paying U.S. corporation taxes. In 1939 the U.S. Government actually encouraged shipping companies to register their fleets in neutral Panama, thus kept vital supplies flowing to Britain without violating U.S. neutrality...
What finally and perhaps irrevocably ended unquestioning U.S. admiration of India was India's role in the Korean war, where Nehru showed himself neutral in favor of Communist China, which he fears as he does not fear the U.S. It was possible to understand Indian neutrality during the fighting. It was all but impossible to forgive the fact that as the pivotal member of the Korean Armistice Commission, India, at Nehru's personal insistence, abandoned the traditional impartiality of neutral arbiters. In an apparent attempt to win the confidence of Mao Tse-tung, it tried to force...
...three years the Socialist government of neutral Burma has refused to take U.S. aid. It was willing to try barter deals with Iron Curtain nations, only to find that Burma invariably wound up on the losing end. Last week, disillusioned with barters and angered by Russian and Chinese support of Burmese Communists, Burma's new Premier U Ba Swe announced that he hoped to get a long-term low-interest loan of $20 million to $30 million from the U.S. as a business deal "without strings," thus compromising neither Burma's neutrality nor her self-respect...
Maine (14): Publicly neutral, privately leaning 9 (including Governor Edmund Muskie) for Stevenson, 1½ for Kefauver, 1 for Harriman, 2½ undecided...