Word: brickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debate on the recognition of Red China has replaced the previously announced topic, the Bricker Amendment, as the subject for a parliamentary assembly sponsored by the Harvard Political Forum...
...preparation for the Political Forum which will open debates in December, two political clubs took formal stands on Senator Bricker's proposed Constitutional Amendment last night. The Amendment will be the first topic for discussion by the forum...
...main objective of the Bricker proposal is to prevent the exercise of the Executive Agreement without the express consent of Congress. Gordon A. Martin, Jr. '57, vice-president of the HYDC, called it "a dangerous restriction on the President's powers, incompatible with the world situation today" and emphasized the importance of fast action by the President in emergencies...
...three Forum proponents agreed that no club would be forced to take a group stand in a public debate. "I can see why the Republicans cannot speak on the Bricker Amendment," Titus said, "but there are other topics on which the Republican Party is united and for which the HYRC should be able to speak as a group...
Whether or not the Republicans are willing to take a stand on the Bricker Amendment, they should allow the Forum to get started. All other groups want to begin now. As the largest political club at the College, the Young Republicans are indispensable if the Forum is to succeed. They should realize that the Forum's success can give new dimensions to the present boundaries of the College's political clubs...