ABSTRACT
In a world of warring ideologies-China v. Russia, Vietnam v. Cambodia—some new comradely alignments are bound to take place, as impassioned rivals seek advantage, territory, prestige, allies. The recent breakaway examples of Iran and Nicaragua, suddenly no longer attached to the Western system of alliances, illuminate the properties of so-called Non-Alignment. Once free of East and West they appear to be perforce independent of even that third bloc which for decades now has been trying to align itself along the lines of non-alignment. What will be the formula when the old heartland of non-alignment should be forced to get back into line. A terrible choice stands before the new nations of the Third World—to get lost in the melee of rival blocs or to lose themselves in the new giganticism of their very own third bloc whose Orwellian credo now reads: non-alignment means following the line.
