Word: coequals
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...relations, Japan's new Conservative Premier Nobusuke Kishi had won his country's greatest postwar victory. It consisted of a set of fundamental changes in Washington's Japan policy that will go far toward establishing his fully sovereign and renascent country as the U.S.'s coequal partner in the Far East. In a joint communiqué issued by the President and the Premier after their talks and from less official leakage, it was plain that Kishi had come, seen...
...turn of the century flocked to Munich to study painting, one of the best was Alexei Georgievich Jawlensky. In the 1920s he ranked with the more famous Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the late U.S.-born Lyonel Feininger and Swiss-born Paul Klee (TIME, Sept. 17) as a coequal in their "Blue Four" exhibits. Then he was all but forgotten...
...from the State Department was not at all what Smith had expected: Dulles found the Knowland amendment unacceptable. In view of that Smith suggested a delay in the committee vote. California's Knowland, who operates with the finesse of a Patton tank, roared his protest: the Senate is coequal with the executive branch and he was tired of giving in to the State Department...
Congressional Relations. Seldom before had a President so specifically recognized the legislative branch's coequal part in the Government. Democrats-and many Republicans-read every early political bobble of the Eisenhower Administration (e.g., the failure to inform members of Congress on appointments) as a sign of civil war between Ike and Congress. But House and Senate G.O.P. leadership patiently tolerated the bobbles, and helped Ike fix his system of liaison. When Congress began warming up to a reorganization bill which the President did not like, Eisenhower-without any public cries of alarm-sent clear word on what he wanted...
...shotting at the Army (and vice versa) for over a year, seemed close to a more or less friendly settlement. The Army & Navy themselves had settled some disputed points, the President had resolved three of the knottiest: he had ruled in favor of a single defense department, three coequal branches, and a Marine Corps under the Navy (TIME, June 24). The one issue on which the Navy had continued to buck its Commander in Chief was his order that all land-based aviation (including anti-submarine patrol) be put under the proposed new independent Air Force...