Word: bipartisanism
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...great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place...
After the usual run of epithets about the "bipartisan war coalition" and the "reactionary, imperialist essence of the Marshall Plan," the resolution declared that, as soon as the war ended, the Communist Party had "boldly proclaimed the need ... for a new people's party." The resolution added modestly: "Because of its correct line, the Party was able to carry on effective mass work and make significant contributions ... to the forging of the new political alignment and people's coalition...
Almost ignored in the turmoil over the Soviet-U.S. exchange of notes was a document that might prove the most important of the week. It was a "working paper" submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. It was the bipartisan blueprint for U.S. security...
...conference in Paris and to the Paris peace conference, and he is largely credited with converting Byrnes to his "patience with firmness" policy. By prodding recalcitrants in his own party and by telling the Administration what it could get through the Senate, he became the real expediter of the bipartisan foreign policy. He has been a sharp critic of the Administration's vacillating China policy, has continually pressed for the formulation of a long-range, overall foreign program...
White House restrictions forbade reports on the speech, but he had previously made most of its points on the record anyway. He talked of bipartisan unity on foreign policy, of Russian intransigence, of the need for carrying through the Marshall Plan, of the necessity for building up a balanced defense establishment and demonstrating that its strength would be arrayed on the side of freedom...