Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real danger in following the primary recommendation is that such an action would tend to make a dead end of the Civil Service. To deny highly trained and experienced career men the opportunity to make and defend policy decisions would be foolish. No man will devote his time and money to training for the civil service if he knows that he can never reach a position of real responsibility. To restrict policy-making to political appointees would automatically remove the incentive which motivates capable men and women to spend years working their way up through the lower echelons...
...Both America and the Soviet Union might withdraw their troops from Germany as part of an overall plan to ensure German disarmament and neutrality under a joint guarantee for "absolute international control." She added that America should never withdraw its "commitment" to defend Germany and Europe against Communist aggression, but suggested that troops on borders might, in the near future, be less effective than long-range weapons in enforcing this guarantee...
...attack from the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa? Eisenhower weighed the risks, took the decision, forced Red China to deploy hundreds of thousands of defense troops along the South China coast. Two years later Radford and Dulles not only endorsed Ike's public promise-backed by congressional resolution-to defend Formosa by force, but wanted the U.S. to declare its specific intent to defend the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu as well. The President, sensing Britain's opposition as well as the military value of being indefinite, in effect overruled his two strategic advisers...
...Goodbye. Typically, last week most of his friends in Maine were ready to defend Ferdinand, even if he was an impostor. Found guilty by a superior court judge, Ferdinand got a suspended sentence and a gentle lecture. "On each occasion," the judge admitted, "deliberately or otherwise, you were doing some good." Said Schoolteacher Hopkins: "I hope Demara can come back. After all, what has he done but use someone else's name? And all the good he has done must certainly outweigh the bad." Ferdinand himself was not so sure. "Under the circumstances," he remarked blandly, "it would...
...script turned in by Sevareid for his nightly five-minute analysis on the radio network. Through a series of pointed questions, the script challenged the wisdom of the State Department's refusal to let U.S. newsmen visit China. "I couldn't pass it; I couldn't defend this one," says Roper. He telephoned CBS News Director John Day at his Manhattan home and read him the text. Day agreed that it should not go on the air because Sevareid's opinion was showing...