Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carefully, Eisenhower summed up for newsmen his ideas on a variety of election-year questions-including his reasons, as a reporter put it, for deciding "to begin attacking the Democrats." The answer was simple. As always, his purpose was to state "the truth as I know it, the facts as I know them." Some people, however, occasionally distort the truth. In such cases, although he didn't personally enjoy it, it becomes "necessary to clear away this underbrush of misunderstanding...
...other ticklish questions. The chances for a tax cut in the next year, the President said, are not "bright" or "right around the corner." To a West German correspondent, who pointed out that the Bonn Cabinet was concerned about proposed reductions in U.S. troop strength, the President made painstaking answer. Declared he: all decreases in U.S. manpower are predicated on an increase in new machines and striking power. "Never have we said we are going to reduce the strength of the American Army...
Later Dulles edited the official transcript of his answer to make it clear that there were no differences between Britain, France and the U.S. in either their approach to the Canal Users Association plan, or to the U.N. But by relating the traditional U.S. position on colonialism to Suez, Dulles touched off a mighty difference of opinion with the newspapers, pundits and editorialists of London and Paris, who resented his linking of the two problems. "A grave disservice to Anglo-American unity," growled the London Times; pouted Paris' L'Aurore, "Mr. Dulles has not used the language...
...Advantage of Bigness. In greater or lesser degree, most of the nations ot Western Europe have faced the same economic dilemma as Britain, and for years farsighted Europeans (and Americans) have been arguing that the answer lies in a common West European market. A common market would allow each of the member nations to specialize in the goods that it produces best. If tariffs were abolished, for example. Britain's camera manufacturers might well be swept away in a flood ot superior German-made Leicas and Rollei-flexes (now subject in Britain to 50% ad valorem duty...
...ever had before, intended to let party unity be his byword. At a press conference, the returned prodigal said it was too early to think about challenging the party leadership, but he added blandly: "One never rules out any possibility about the future." Bevan also had an answer to the second question worrying the British: Is Labor swinging left? The Labor Party Conference had shown, he said, "a very substantial degree of radical temper-very much more so than in recent years. It looks as if the movement is gathering strength for another quite rapid surge forward...