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...communique went on: "Senator McCarthy . . . pointed out that neither he nor his committee had made or contemplated making any agreement with any . . . foreign shipping groups, but that, as a byproduct of the committee's investigation, certain foreign shipping groups had voluntarily agreed among themselves to abstain from participation in the Communist China trade and inter-Soviet bloc trade, a result which both Secretary Dulles and Senator McCarthy felt was in the national interest . . . Senator McCarthy further advised that if in the future similar information would be developed it would be promptly communicated to the proper authorities...
Within minutes, ballot cards were passed out bearing a single name-Tito. The members were told to underline the name if they favored Tito, cross it out if they were against him, leave the card untouched if they wanted to abstain. The 569 members marked their cards, gravely carried them to the front of the house and dropped them into the ballot boxes. Clerks tallied the count, handed the totals to the speaker. With an air of shocked surprise, he announced the result: 568 votes for Marshal Tito; one vote against...
...Young people's habits are more influenced by what their parents practice than by what they preach: if both parents drink, 90% of their sons and 83% of their daughters drink; if both parents abstain, so do 49% of their sons, 81% of their daughters...
Delegate Ernest Gross gave the U.S. answer. "I have been instructed," said he with embarrassment, "to abstain." Britain and France voted against the Tunisian plea; Soviet Russia, playing to the hilt its role as the champion of the downtrodden colonials, voted...
When Adenauer sat down after his eloquent speech, black wooden boxes were passed down the aisles of the packed Bundestag chamber. Into the boxes each deputy dropped one of three cards: blue for yes, pink for no, yellow for abstain. Tally: 232 blues, 143 pinks, three yellows. Germany, Europe's biggest steel and coal producer, had decisively answered