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Last week, in response, Kennedy's open door to the East slammed shut. U.S. offi cials announced that a proposed Tito visit to Washington was postponed indefinitely -as was action on Tito's latest request for more U.S. aid. The Administration also said that Poland's plea for more fiscal credits would be shelved. Then the Senate urged the President to withhold aid from any nation that shows little sympathy for U.S. policies...
Like President Eisenhower before him, President Kennedy thought for a while that it might be possible, by holding out the U.S. hand of friendship and financial aid, to lure such occasionally dissident Communist dictators as Yugoslavia's Tito and Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka to the side of the West. But recent events have changed the President's mind. Gomulka, following Moscow's lead, moved toward partial mobilization of Poland's armed forces, and warned that Poland would not "remain passive" in the Berlin crisis. And fortnight ago, at the conference of neutrals in Belgrade, Tito...
...Khrushchev scattered them with one loud boo and the remote thunder of atomic explosion deep inside Russia. After that, it was every neutralist for himself, and the Conference of the Nonaligned Nations was soon lined up in splinters tremulously blown one way or the other. Yugoslavia's President Tito condemned France for failing "to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations on the discontinuance of atomic tests." He was willing to forgive Russia, "because we can understand the reasons adduced by the government of the U.S.S.R." Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah echoed Tito...
World Conscience? Despite Khrushchev's blatant disregard for their opinions, next day the delegates earnestly began to discuss how to make their opinions felt in world politics. In his keynote speech, Tito grumbled, "Small and medium-sized countries are considered as a kind of reserve and voting machine in international forums. Nonaligned countries can no longer reconcile themselves to that role. They have a right to participate in the solving of problems...
Nasser echoed Tito's lofty proposition that the neutralists are "the conscience of the world" for peace. Referring to Russia's rudely timed nuclear testing announcement, he made a promising start. "This decision shocks me just as it shocked all world opinion," he said. "Whatever the motives of the Soviet government [it has] a clear bearing on the deterioration of the dangerous international situation." But his moment of conscience quickly passed; he spent the rest of his time on the rostrum denouncing the West and Western colonialism...