Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough. Out of the blue, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright, committee chairman, began carping about the witness' G.O.P. partisanship in old political speeches. Then Wayne Morse took over. He lashed at Mrs. Luce's statement, voiced during the 1944 presidential campaign, that Franklin Roosevelt was "the only American President who ever lied us into a war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it." Witness Luce conceded to Morse that "the language was very intemperate, and would not have been used by me if I had the experience which I now have." Unmollified...
...TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE," declaimed about the "intertwining of Luce policy and Eisenhower policy in conducting the vital affairs of the U.S." Morse even suggested that a TIME story quoting an anonymous U.S. official's rueful jest about dividing up Bolivia-a quote in TIME'S Latin American edition that was used as provocation for riots in Bolivia (TIME, March 16)-was a sinister attempt to cater to Brazilian designs on Bolivian territory...
...President in a climate of uneasiness which the smears and suspicions have created . . . Senator Wayne Morse and others have devoted themselves to undermining Mrs. Luce's usefulness. Senator Morse happens to be the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee, which has cognizance of inter-American affairs and Brazil...
...trouble keeping separate the many things she is and dimming her own radiance enough to see the prudent course. Yet she is certainly among the better noncareer diplomats we've had, a woman of the world, who in no sense but the Pickwickian is an "ugly American...
...JORNAL DO BRASIL: Senhora Luce can be certain that the U.S. Senate debate did not in the least affect the Brazilian concept and appreciation of her personally. The predominant opinion, now that we will not have her here with us, is deep disappointment. Brazil's role in Pan-American development would have been ably treated by a diplomat with the extraordinary abilities and superior intelligence of Senhora Luce...