Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This familiar classified ad in the Washington News sent a despondent man to the phone in the dead of night. To the woman's voice that answered, he said: "I was intending to commit suicide tonight, and a friend told me to call you first." The warm voice at the other end began to pray. After a bit of prayer and a blessing, the would-be suicide felt unaccountably better. He mumbled his thanks and hung...
...began about eight months ago after Mrs. Shelhamer heard of the suicide of a prominent Washingtonian. "I just walked around the house and prayed. I didn't even kneel. 'Lord Jesus,' I said, 'why couldn't I contact some of these people before they commit suicide?' " A newspaperman wrote the classified ad for her and paid to run it daily for three months. Her telephone seems to have been ringing steadily ever since. One Sunday, the busiest day, she got no calls...
...Constitutional Crisis." That did it. Last week Congress was in an uproar. An indignant Robert Taft saw the country at a "constitutional crisis." Claims made for "unlimited power to commit troops," said Taft, were "based on the most superficial arguments." Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry introduced a resolution which would prohibit the President from sending any troops to Europe, except for the purpose of repelling an outright attack or as part of the present garrison in Germany...
...Western Europe, Taft recognized, lies the "greatest question of policy before the country." As a guiding principle in determining U.S. policy in Europe, he reiterated: "Commit no American troops to the European continent at this time...
...Taft's case. A Russia now deterred by the threat of U.S. atomic bombs might feel less awed as its own stockpile grew. And there was not much in law to support the argument that the President had "usurped authority" to send troops to Korea and to commit them to Europe. History books listed more than 130 cases where U.S. Presidents sent U.S. troops into armed action to defend the national interest...