Word: bipartisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impatient with the State Department's attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
...wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
Dulles sent a terse, good-natured telegram to President Harry Truman: "You win." The President didn't reply. At his weekly press conference he plainly implied that he probably would find little further use for Dulles as a bipartisan spokesman at the world's diplomatic councils. If so, the loss would be the nation's as well as Dulles', for though an amateur in politics, he had been a professional in diplomacy since...
...Republican finances had been in a lot worse shape before (notably in 1936, when the deficit after the Landon debacle was more than $1,000,000), and Kemper obviously had more on his mind than economy. It was the bipartisan foreign policy. Kemper had been much under attack as an isolationist (in 1941, as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he opposed lend-lease). His Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. had sponsored Isolationist Upton Close's broadcasts during...
Kemper's current position is that the bipartisan foreign policy is really only bipartisan in support, not "in genesis." Snapped Kemper: "As a result of our so-called bipartisan foreign policy, Republicans have been asked to shower gifts on British Socialism-younger sister of Communism." As G.O.P. Treasurer, Kemper had felt "handicapped" in saying so. He now planned to devote himself, he announced, to electing his kind of Republican Congress...