Word: counterattack
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...been gunning for Florida's Governor Fuller Warren. Pearson had urged the Florida legislature to impeach Warren on the ground that his campaign had been heavily financed by gamblers (TIME, July 16, 1951). Last week, on vacation, Pearson gave Warren the use of his column for an uncensored counterattack. Wrote Guest Columnist Warren...
...Weak Shah. Qavam moved to counterattack. He hurried to the Shah, proposed that the Majlis be dissolved, and outlined plans to jail the mob leaders. At this point, the fight for Iran might have gone either way. But the attacks on the monarchy had scared the Shah; moreover, he feared, and not without reason, that Qavam's vigorous measures might cause defections in the army. The weak Shah refused the dangerous but necessary gamble...
...gift for the precisely wrong word asserted itself: "I do propose the deadly reprisal strategy of a rattlesnake." To do this "within our economic capacities," he asked for an end of great U.S. ground armies. "The sure defense of London, New York and Paris is the fear of counterattack on Moscow from the air." He was interrupted 71 times by applause, yells and cheers. When he finished his speech-"I pray [to God] to strengthen your hands and to give you courage"-a second great ovation burst out in the auditorium. Crowds in the gallery behind the speaker...
...Communist enemy responded to the U.S.'s pressure program with a counterattack-not a military counterattack, which might have been costly, but a psychological one. The enemy repeated the fiction (very useful to him in the past) that U.N. pressure is a "provocation" which is "imperiling" the truce talks (in secret session last week and reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed...
Both Kirkpatrick and Bierly had good financial reasons for clearing out. Although Counterattack has won a measure of dubious fame, it has barely been able to keep its head above water. It never paid salaries of more than $6,000 a year, and it paid only a few dividends of $1 each on its 1,000 shares of stock. Its special research jobs for corporations, ad agencies, unions, etc. now account for about 5% of its income; the rest comes from Counterattack subscriptions. But by next fall, Keenan, who now has a controlling interest, expects...