Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "Franco and the Spanish people have rendered great services to the world-the new Spanish stability marks a step toward complete Western European integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace of the Pyrenees, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations met again. What Napoleon did in between was not mentioned. Said Castiella: "The day of complete friendship and loyalty between Europeans has come...
...Washington the word seeped out that Speaker Sam Rayburn, permanent chairman of the last three Democratic National Conventions, will not accept that honorific spot again at next July's convention in Los Angeles. The chairman, Mister Sam feels, should be conspicuously neutral, and Rayburn's own all-out support of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson's presidential ambitions rules...
...nearly every state, Stuart Symington has a few devoted, eager backers who are ready to pledge faith and funds to his cause. Most have helped him fight his battles through administrative Washington, or watched from neutral corners while his intense drive brought stale government alive. The quality of executive drive is a tough one to merchandise from a political platform, no matter how handsome the driver. But a man who is already endowed with the negative assets and the positive cause of defense, and who is already the professionals' second choice, could reasonably see a chance to wind...
...consensus in the press the morning after was that is had been the biggest flop. The only thing the festivities lacked was spontaneity. On the domestic front, the regime was looking for a vote of confidence; all it got was a public ready and willing to have a politically neutral good time. On the international front, in a scene reminiscent of Moscow May Days, the French paraded through the Concorde all their newest and finest military equipment. Jets trailing blue, white, and red streams flew overhead. The aerial effect was gaudy, but the material comparison with the Red Square extravaganza...
Awolowo styles himself a "liberal democrat" and favors uncompromising allegiance with the West in foreign policy. Zik swears he is not anti-West (his son is at Harvard), but insists that independent Nigeria should follow a neutral foreign policy, much like that of Kwame Nkrumah in nearby Ghana. Such sophisticated distinctions have little part in the campaigning-Awolowo and Zik prefer to denounce each other as oppressors of the people. It goes over much better...