Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Irish diplomat said, "He is a very difficult man to understand. I imagine it must be a trying experience for him to appear in this kind of a parliamentary body. He is used to making speeches to unanimous audiences which give him nothing but applause." Another neutral delegate added, "I suppose he really thought he could take the U.N. by storm, especially the uncommitted nations. But he ended up with a left-wing African publicly criticizing him, and the Assembly applauding the criticism...
...usual mark of the neutral is to abstain on issues tied closely to the cold war. When the Soviet Union moved to debate the flights of the U-2 and RB-47, the U.S. won the balloting 54 to 10, but one third of the U.N. membership abstained, including countries generally considered pro-Western (Austria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia...
Khrushchev's assiduous wooing of the small nations paid some dividends. Though they were still skittish about his attacks on Dag Hammarskjold, some of them listened attentively to Khrushchev's demand that the U.N. be redesigned and headed by a triumvirate of Western, Communist and neutral powers. In typically tentative fashion, Nehru argued, "The structure of the U.N. when it started was weighted in favor of Europe and the Americas. Although the executive should not be weakened, probably some structural changes would be desirable...
Amid the mess, the U.N. sat by, keeping the peace but numbly neutral, wistfully wishing someone could get a government together. "It is hoped that before it is too late the political leadership will make its choice, both wisely and well," said Rajeshwar Dayal, U.N. chief in the Congo, in a formal report. Added Sture Linner, Swedish head of the U.N.'s nonmilitary Congo work: "The situation is getting more and more alarming. We are facing a panorama of disaster.'' Appeals for economic help stream in from the provinces, but no one in Leopoldville can be found...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles once said that neutrality is immoral--either they are with us or against us. Today 26 African nations, 19 Asian countries, and 19 Latin American states are voting members of the General Assembly. The potential power of these uncommitted nations has emerged vividly during the past weeks. Now the United States must wage a continuous battle not only to win votes for the Western bloc, but merely to keep these states neutral...