Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western diplomats had been inclined to dismiss talk of an Afro-Asian conference as little more than a frisky showing-off by the young governments of the world's recently freed colonial areas. But when they read the Prime Ministers' statement of principles, the agenda and the guest list, they began to worry. Still more mistrustful of a colonialism that is past than of a growing threat of Communism, filled with imagined and real grievances against the white man, most of the governments of Africa and Asia are vulnerable for exploitation. Western officials began to shudder...
Both Berlin and Bartlett argued for the sixty-day period "in view of the important constitutional questions involved." Berlin added that he wished to leave himself free to present a motion to dismiss the indictments entirely. He had stated earlier that he might question not only the McCarthy subcommittee's right to question Furry about his associates, but also its right to investigate operations outside the government...
...Singer should serve whatever sentence the court imposes and then be allowed to return as a full member of the University faculty," the editorial continued. Insisting that Singer's loyalty is not under question, the Sun concluded ". . . this offers the University no basis to relieve Dr. Singer or dismiss him at this or any future date...
...optimists are wrong if they think that censure will mean the end of McCarthy as a political power. In the Senate, the debate has swung around McCarthy the man, and McCarthy the ill-behaved Senator. Thus, many liberals, revolted by the abusive McCarthy tactics, tend to dismiss all his adherents as either malicious or stupid people. Such an attitude, however, underestimates the movement and suggests no solution to McCarthyism as a political problem. The censure split in the Senate parallels a more serious split in the nation, a division particularly deep in matters of foreign policy. The McCarthyitcs' overriding fear...
Rightly suspicious of any Communist change of heart, Americans have perhaps been too quick to dismiss the Communist change of face. In minimizing each conciliatory Communist gesture, the U.S. runs the risk of having underestimated their cumulative effect. Put together, the Communist deeds and promises make quite a list...