Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...attempt to force passage of laws inflicting retroactive punishment on ex-officials of the Rhee government. When not careening through the streets of Seoul in commandeered Jeeps, giving orders by loudspeaker to the legislature, the students have held massive rallies urging unification with Communist North Korea in a single, neutral state...
...Some neutral-leaning countries wandered down more romantic trails. Burbled the Ceylon Observer: "A new generation, has now taken command. It is their destiny that the Nassers, the Nkrumahs, the Castros and the Kennedys will shape." All over Latin America, despite Kennedy's interventionist threat in Cuba (snapped Castro's official newspaper Revolución: "Four years of a rich illiterate"), his victory was hailed jubilantly as "a return to the policies of Franklin Roosevelt." In India and Malaya, neutralist Kennedy fans thought he really favors, as they do, recognition of Red China...
...should administer a youth service program extends beyond private foundations and the U.S. government to the United Nations. If the "Peace Corps" idea met with favor, other countries, from both the Western alliance and the Soviet bloc, might hasten to join. As the recent General Assembly showed, the neutral nations have considerable respect for the U.N. and conversely, suspicions about either of the great power blocs. If the "Peace Corps" were a U.N. organ, three problems would be alleviated: (1) youth from all nations could join a single organization, (2) neutral countries would accept a U.N. delegation of youth without...
...case that U.S. prestige, if not at an "alltime high," is nevertheless high. The massive displays of popular approval that President Eisenhower encountered on his trip around the world in 1959 showed a vast reservoir of affection and good will toward the U.S., even in countries that count themselves neutral in the cold war. Western Europe, with its thriving economies, has unmistakably opted for the U.S. way rather than the Russian way of organizing society and producing goods. In most of the free world, the popular appeal of Communism as an alternative way of life has shrunk to nearly zero...
This prospect did not seem to bother the growing number of Lumumba supporters among the U.N.'s neutral-nation membership; a frequent Lumumba visitor last week was Metrol A. Rahman chargé d'affaires of India, reflecting the likelihood that Jawaharlal Nehru has bought the line of Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Touré that the only man to run the Congo is Patrice Lumumba...