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
Example Sentences
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After two months of fitful negotiations in Vientiane, there has been scant progress in the talks between the Pathet Lao and the U.S.-backed but nominally "neutralist" government of Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was not altogether startling; ever since the establishment of a neutralist tripartite government in Laos as a result of the Geneva accords of 1962, news from there had generally been gloomy.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he first addressed the U.N., in 1960, the 33-year-old Castro was a fledgling revolutionary, overshadowed by such neutralist giants as Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, then 68, and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, 70.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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.
From Time Magazine Archive
German agents invaded Italy and conducted a campaign of propaganda through the neutralist newspapers and through more secret labors among various organizations influential in their control of public sentiment.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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