neutralist
Americannoun
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a person who advocates or adheres to a policy of strict neutrality in foreign affairs.
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a person who advocates or adheres to a policy or theory of neutralism.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of neutralist
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"Big" Minh, as he was universally known, was a former general who headed what he described as a neutralist "third force" and was acceptable to the communists.
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"Were I in Viet Nam, I think I might be an anguished neutralist Buddhist some place," he has confessed to an interviewer.
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For three years, Cambodia's chimerical Prince veiled his relations with the Viet Cong by keeping foreign journalists out of his "neutralist" country.
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Saddam Hussein envisioned the meeting as a way to emphasize Iraq's maturing role as the dominant neutralist power in the gulf.
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The article in the Stampa, which appears ultra-nationalist, is in reality purely neutralist.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
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