Word: bipartisanism
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...high good humor, old Cordell Hull called in a bipartisan group of Congressmen to announce the news: Dumbarton Oaks was winding up its work. The U.S., Britain and Russia had seen eye-to-eye on the Great Blueprint for world organization. Minor details could wait. The important fact, said the Secretary of State, was that the Big Three, in peace as in war, have a common aim. The 39 delegates had nothing much left to do but wait for final nods from their respective Governments. Then the Chinese, who have been watching intently from just outside the Dumbarton Oaks...
...made a careful distinction between Candidate Roosevelt and President Roosevelt: "I would much prefer that... no conference occur until after the election. But if the President of the United States wishes to see me sooner, I shall of course comply." With equal impartiality, Willkie had been willing to talk "bipartisan" foreign policy with Tom Dewey's friend, John Foster Dulles, but not yet with Candidate Dewey (TIME...
This will be an entirely new statement. It will not be the House's bipartisan Fulbright Resolution. Nor will it be B 2 H 2 , which specifically commits the U.S. to an international police force. The President had advised against any specific statement, and to cautious Tom Connally his advice was hardly necessary...
...quick Congressional acceptance showed that there is substantial bipartisan agreement in Congress on the basic elements of postwar U.S. foreign policy. As a step toward formulating this policy, in terms to which a great majority of U.S. citizens can subscribe, it represents a long stride down the road opened by such earlier attempts as the Senate's Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March...
...bipartisan resolution, urging the United States to initiate meetings towards the creation of an organization of the United Nations, would bless such an organization with the mechanisms for the peaceful, adjudication of disputes, implemented with "a United Nations military force." If adopted, our Allies would be assured that the United States will not retreat into an inglorious isolation after the war, but will assume its due share of responsibility for the welfare of a post-war world. With the United States participating in an effective system of collective security, Russia's requirements for individual security might be less pressing...