Word: campaigning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal had not raised his finger in the election campaign, and in fact had embarrassed the President politically by his stand on Palestine. Forrestal plugged aggressively in Cabinet sessions for his policies, sometimes on subjects which the President didn't think concerned him. It was no secret that Harry Truman, while recognizing his ability as a Cabinet officer, would like to get rid of him in good time-perhaps after the military budget was settled...
...greater secrecy. For more than six months, in Washington and London, experts of seven nations, like diligent sculptors, had chipped away at it behind closed doors. They were still not ready to unveil their handiwork, the North Atlantic Alliance. But last week, the State Department started a sales campaign to tell the U.S. what its general form would be. To newsmen, the department handed out a 4,000-word brochure, titled "Building the Peace-Collective Security in the North Atlantic Area...
...during the presidential campaign, the Democratic Party had paraded its poverty. But last week, the 1948 financial statements of the two major parties, on file with Congress, showed the Democrats were in the black, the Republicans in the red. Obviously there was nothing like a victory to stimulate the check-writing muscles: the Democratic National Committee had collected $2,308,211, and had $51,432 left in the till. The Republican National Committee, which spent $2,736,334, was $228,938 in the hole...
Lone Pocket. As the Israelis withdrew into Palestine, the Egyptians threw in the sponge. The two-week campaign, by Israeli claims, had cost the Egyptians 2,500 casualties (including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...
Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalists were in no mood to heed Epstein's protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone...