Word: chan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, Senator Chan Gurney, chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, who had just returned from a European junket, urgently demanded a U.S. military alliance with Spain. He also voiced a principle that had an odd sound coming from a country which objects to Communist tyranny everywhere. Said he: "It is not up to us to tell countries what kind of a government they ought to have...
...weird that the United States, billing itself as the last great bastion of democracy, can consistently woo men like Franco. Senator Chan Gurney of South Dakota, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has the answer. The Soviet menace is of such magnitude, he says, that we should let bygones be bygones and accept every one we happen to find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers...
...Mentioned. Communist political strategy, exploiting the widespread yearning for peace, played up the possibility of peace talks. But with the summer's military successes, the Communists' peace price has gone up. One Nationalist official quoted a pertinent old proverb: Neng chan neng ho-Only he who can fight can make peace. The men around Chiang, even Vice President Li, an outspoken critic of the Gimo, were too staunchly anti-Communist to let China be swallowed by the Reds...
...Senate listened hardest to South Dakota's Republican Chan Gurney. Sure, he agreed, it was "a stupendous pork barrel . . . but it will put pork chops and bacon and roast pork on millions of dinner tables." The Senators had added more than $101 million to the bill the House had already passed. But they had a good excuse for throwing economy out the window. The bill's whopping total-$640,253,200-was still about $25 million under the Administration's budget estimate. An overwhelming voice vote rolled the barrel to passage...
...Chan Gurney. 5. Palmer "Ep" Hoyt...