Word: agenda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congressman Rich grumped that the House ought to have its head examined, his weary colleagues still faced a mountain of work before they could go home and see to their political fences. On the agenda and still to be voted: the new defense appropriations, wage, price and production control bill, being written and rewritten by another little group of perspiring Senators and Representatives in joint committee; a tax bill, which will fall far short of meeting the new expenditures; a universal military-training bill; a bill to clamp down on free-running Communists in the once free & easy...
...North Atlantic Treaty deputies in London (see above) carefully avoided the subject. The Allied high commissioners in Germany had also kept it off their agenda. Result: when the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in New York this month, they will not even have joint preliminary studies on which to base their discussions. While U.S. authorities in Germany avoid all talk about a German army, the more realistic British and French have wined & dined German generals...
Instead of taking up the agenda item, he read a "most urgent" telegram from the North Korean authorities, a denunciation, conveniently in Russian, of "American interventionists . . . barbarous attacks . . . cannibalistic cynicism . . ." It was cut from the same cloth of distortion and falsehood that the Russian delegate had unrolled in all his previous harangues (e.g., the real aggressors in Korea were "American imperialists"; only the Soviet Union desired a "peaceful settlement...
...back to the issue over which he had walked out. The Nationalist Chinese delegate, Malik "ruled," had no right to sit in the Council, since he did not represent the Chinese people. When the U.S. and friends challenged this arbitrary ruling, Malik tried another tack. He submitted a provisional agenda which blandly ignored the rule of taking up unfinished business left over from the preceding session (a U.S. resolution condemning North Korean aggression). Malik proposed two items of his own: the seating of Communist China in the U.N., and "peaceful settlement" in Korea. His terms for "peaceful settlement" were immediate...
...Council was not intimidated. Four times it voted, and four times Malik was defeated. The Council approved the U.S.-sponsored agenda which would make North Korean aggression this week's first order of business...