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Patriotic Neutralists

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• ... that when the Neutralists chose sides in the Laotian Civil War, the Patriotic Neutralists went to the communists?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Conill
• Comment: An example of what happens when those who are "on the fence" get off it.

Created by Georgejdorner (talk). Self nominated at 20:16, 20 February 2015 (UTC).

• New enough and long enough. No images. Hook fact is cited, AGF on offline refs, but I'm a little confused. In the Background section, FAN is described as a 3rd force, non-Communist and non-Royalist. In the first sentence of the next section, it is described as pro-Royalist. This needs some sort of clarification: a reread leads me to believe that the Nuetralists split into pro-Royalist and pro-Communist factions, but this is not explicitly stated, and one or both factions could have maintained their non-aligned status. In fact, it is not even explicitly stated that the "Neutralists chose sides". Simon Burchell (talk) 13:04, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

• Let's see if I have successfully untangled this snarl of alliances. The reader should now be able to see that FAN went from non-aligned to being helped by Communists to allying itself with the Royalists; Patriotic Neutralists split off to follow the Communists. Comments?Georgejdorner (talk) 17:31, 23 February 2015 (UTC)