non-aligned

non-aligned
   vacillating in allegiance
   The representatives of countries which so described themselves met in Belgrade in 1961, claiming with more or less sincerity that they favoured neither Washington nor Moscow.
   Jennings in 1965 described them as 'no more than potential parasites', as though their approval for either of the then Great Powers might have been obtained by bribery or support for an autocrat. Perish the thought!.

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