Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since Lenin's death the U.S. is confronted by a Communist ideology that moves toward world domination with a line that is meant to sound like sweet reason. Already in its first blush this is having its desired effect on some of the colonial and neutral nations, as evidenced by Nehru's warm applause for the Russian new look in New Delhi (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...this adds up to a Soviet offensive whose purpose is to cement a world bloc of nations on the base of a common hostility to the capitalist U.S. Its leaders, marking out the whole grey world of neutral nations inside their "zone of peace," claim 1.5 billion people-almost two-thirds of humanity-on their side, and boldly redefine the opponents of Communism as an isolated, retreating minority. To the Asian nations they offer the comradeship of backwardness, the fraternity of poverty, the communality of agricultural nations seeking to industrialize themselves, and sympathetic stirring of old resentments against their colonial...
...price for freedom. Austria pledged the Russians that it would remain "neutral." Chancellor Julius Raab argued that this meant not only military neutrality but also "ideological neutrality," and ordered the Austrian press and radio not to say anything that might annoy the Communists. If everybody spoke the Communists fair, he argued, the Russians might scale down the reparations exacted under the state treaty. Raab carried this notion so far that a commentator was cut off the government-controlled radio for giving a mildly pro-Western account of the Geneva Conference...
...militarily a neutral state," he declared, "but there is no neutrality of spirit for us, and therefore no 'neutralism.' " Simultaneously, Raab let it be known that Austria had decided not to accept Russia's offer of a $20 million loan, but had agreed instead to accept an American loan on the same easy terms...
With her guard held high, the Duchess of Windsor charged out of the neutral corner where she had stood fast for two decades after marrying Britain's newly abdicated ex-King Edward VIII in 1937. Occasion: McCall's magazine this week began publishing her serialized autobiography, This Is My Side of the Story, which the duchess contends she wrote all by herself. In her "simple story," the Baltimore-bred duchess, after confessing that "no one has ever accused me of being an intellectual," rolls off into her halcyon childhood memoirs, interspersed with some harsh looks in the mirror...