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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
The ability of the new nations to think for themselves has surprised their former rulers as much as their capacity for self-government. In many circles it has not only caused surprise but some dismay. It was hoped that the older and wiser rulers would still continue to rule other men's minds if not their countries. Nothing has so disappointed these hopes as the development in the newly independent states of a rich and complex idea of non-alignment, and as a result this idea has been much misunderstood and much resented. Scholars have realised only recently that it is now an integral part of contemporary political thought.
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Page 522 note 1 It is also more difficult for the democracies to understand the completely different considerations shaping the foreign policies of other countries when they themselves are thinking so egocentrically. The world is now polycentric, but Schlesinger makes the fantastic remark that ‘Three weeks after Oxford [James Meredith's government-supported registration at the University of Mississippi’, Sékou Touré and Ben Bella were prepared to deny refueling facilities to Soviet planes bound for Cuba during the missile crisis.’ Is one meant to conclude that a calculated programme of civil rights was then collecting its just dividends? Fortunately, perhaps, this is the desire for manipulation run mad. Other and more serious considerations prevailed with these, less easily persuaded, leaders.
Page 525 note 1 Wright, Richard, The Colour Curtain (London, 1956)Google Scholar.
