Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under the Constitution has the power to determine the rules . . . The right of a current majority ... to adopt its own rules, stemming as it does from the Constitution itself, cannot be restricted or limited by rules adopted by the Senate in a previous Congress. Any provision . . . which has the express or practical effect of denying the majority . . . the right to adopt the rules under which it desires to proceed is, in the opinion of the chair, unconstitutional...
Certainly, a U.N. Police Force would be no cure-all. But it would be wrong to say that it could do no more than the member states themselves could do in any given situation. For if the U.N. is effective on political questions mainly as a place to express world public opinion, then an international police force would be one way to give this opinion unified and immediately available backing. If it were composed of small nations and neutral nations, it would be somewhat immune from Cold War commitments and could, at least in part, help make the U.N. something...
...United Nations Assembly can at least express world opinion, provided, of course, this is sufficiently clearly shown by very large majorities. Without such an Assembly to show, by overwhelming votes, what different countries think the picture would be much more confused than it is today. The resolutions of the Assembly therefore have an impact." He pointed to the Assembly's denunciation of Russia as hurting Soviet prestige everywhere...
...move "jointly" with Britain in the Middle East, was tempted to crow that the new U.S. position merely paralleled the British line-which contended that Britain had launched its attack against Egypt just to stop the Russians. "As things are now shaping," snapped Beaverbrook's Sunday Express, "we may have [Eisenhower] ordering us back into Egypt . . . I hope the thought of it isn't spoiling his golf game this week on the Augusta golf course where America's Government now seems to be permanently established." Liberal, Laborite and independent newspapers kept up their strong support...
When Whitney's appointment was announced in London, British newspapers were generally mildly approving ("The Yank from Oxford," said Beaverbrook's usually anti-U.S. Daily Express, "is going to be the Yank at the Court of St. James's"). The Daily Telegraph was moved, in passing, to talk about "the American attitude of appointing gifted amateurs to some of the main diplomatic posts in the world. Some of these appointments are brilliant successes, but the practice does not always turn out equally well." For Whitney the U.S. held high hopes, for, as the New York Times...