“Neutralism,” says OSCAR HANDLIN, “ is often described as a policy of nonalignment adhered to by the new Afro-Asian nations which desire peace in order to further their own interests.” The inaccuracy of this description, the development of the original concept of neutrality, and the disastrous form it has now taken are pointed up in the following article by Mr. Handlin, an eminent member of the faculty of Harvard and director of its Center for the Study of the History of Liberty in America.