Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uphill battle, his least expected asset for November is that it is now the Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin liberalism. Beyond that, Proxmire...
...balance could not last indefinitely, for two great forces were in a deadly duel to determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering Charles de Gaulle, whose fortunes rose every time the insurgents scored a point...
...Gaulle was well aware, this line of attack had its risks. In the minds of some Frenchmen, De Gaulle's soft sell and his insistence that he must be invited to power reawakened a longstanding suspicion that "le grand Charlie" lacked the capacity to be either an effective democrat or effective dictator. "After all," mused a dentist in Chateau-Thierry, "De Gaulle had the country in his hands in 1945 and couldn't run it. We need somebody who is better at politics." But on the minds of many Frenchman, De Gaulle's tactic of moderation seemed...
...because the splintered and squabbling non-Communist majority still refused to get excited. "Souphanouvong has been scolding the government these many years; now he 'has the power, and we will attack him, and it will serve him right," said one opponent. Others convinced themselves that with Souphanouvong's Communists administering American aid, more U.S. money would get past the corrupt politicians and into the hands of the people, who would then be properly grateful and friendly to the West...
Died. William H. Francis Jr., 43, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Personnel and Reserve (since April 1957), Houston lawyer, longtime behind-the-scenes power in Texas Republican politics, World War II intelligence captain on Ike's staff; of a heart attack after playing tennis; in Washington, D.C. An advocate of higher military pay scales placing "major emphasis on achievement rather than on total years of service," Francis argued for the measure before a Senate subcommittee. It was enacted into law last week...