Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...united Europe. In fact, most of them are thoroughly content with cooperative unity. Says Walter Hallstein: ."Perhaps it's common sense to do it this way because we are dealing with conservative forces." And by capturing the conservatives, advocates of European unity have destroyed the most effective argument against them-the charge that a man cannot be a good European and a French or German patriot at the same time...
...career, Premier Michel Debre, the man most responsible for the new constitution, stood firm against this challenge. Freely admitting that as a Senator during the Fourth Republic, he had himself been "a master of the art" of Tunisification, he added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre...
...Institute in Washington, offered an indirect defense. Said he: "We have every reason to believe that at the last session of this term we will be able to say, as the court has said every year since 1928, when it acquired the certiorari* jurisdiction, that all cases ready for argument have been heard and decided." But by Warren's own figures, Frankfurter had a point. At last reckoning, the Supreme Court had disposed of 1,415 cases during its present term, compared with 1,391 at the same stage of the previous term. Yet 1,836 cases remained...
Norstad's argument was that what NATO's arsenal now needs is ground-attack fighters. He won no commitments. Asked later about a report that the government now hoped to postpone a decision on the chance that a summit conference might agree on some kind of European disengagement. Defense Production Minister Raymond O'Hurley replied: ''Yes. that's what we had in mind...
...makes a very impressive case against believing everything you read in the newspapers. Some of it is put there because a reporter needs a story. Some of it gets in because a Washington policy-maker is having a quarrel and needs public support (but the other side of the argument may not make the story.) A great deal of it gets in because of the constant competition for public attention in Washington...