Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...date was set for the eve of the Republican state convention, to be held next week in Syracuse. But Dewey heard the outriders of a "Draft-Dewey" movement trumpeting in the distance, and promptly moved up his schedule by two weeks. Two days before he was to make his television appearance, he sat down to write his speech, consulting with Irving Ives by telephone. Between them they made final arrangements, e.g., by selecting an Ives-man to take over as Republican state chairman...
Immediately, Dulles discovered that his draft of the pact, which was too strong for those who stayed away, was too weak for some who came. The American draft contained no provision for automatic action in case of aggression, as NATO does, but provides for emergency consultation and measures by each nation within its constitutional bounds. Dulles explained that, for SEATO, he could not persuade Congress to ratify a NATO-style treaty...
...milder than the U.S. Supreme Court ban, was challenged only by four Northern delegates-for its severity. Joe McCarthy was routinely deplored, rather than denounced; not even a stouthearted right-winger rose to Red-bait in reply. Nor did the students spend much time discussing the vagaries of the draft and U.M.T. (rejected by N.S.A. in 1952). Said one N.S.A. officer: "We're pretty well resigned to all that...
...Filipinos objected at once that such a SEATO was not strong enough. On the other hand, the treaty went just about as far as the British were prepared to go; the British wanted a "constructive, unhurried approach." The British even hoped that one passage in the treaty draft might be changed, leveling SEATO not against "Communist aggression" but simply against "aggression...
...report that condemned in the same breath both Communism and "laissez-faire capitalism." At Evanston last week, the Council made a sharp and heartening about-face. One of the men most responsible for the change was Delegate Charles Taft, who set up his own committee soon after Amsterdam to draft a more constructive message. Similar discussions were held in Britain, France and The Netherlands. The report...