Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abrupt and unsmiling, Dulles rammed a pencil point into his scratch pad. "But who is this Chou En-lai whose addition to our circle would make possible all that so long seemed impossible [see box]? He is a leader of a regime which gained de facto power on the China mainland through bloody war . . . which became an open aggressor in Korea . . . which promotes aggression in Indo-China...
According to Moore, the HYRC supported statements made by Pusey and the Corporation on three points on which the other members of the committee would not agree: 1) Communism is ipso facto unfit to teach. 2) A Congressional Committee has the right to investigate an educational institution so long as its investigation is conducted on the principles of justice and consideration for the individual. 3) Anyone who uses the Fifth Amendment to keep from testifying should be carefully scrutinized...
...Corporation's statement of last spring joined the party in 1938, quitting in 1947. There is some doubt among lawyers as to whether the oath is promissory, holding him in 1938 to something he said in 1934. It also seems that the penalty would be ex post facto in this case since he quit the party a year before it was added...
...Foreign Office man put it, "There is a little coquetry going on. We have reason to believe that the Russians want to make friends with us." The strike was getting unpopular among the strikers themselves; presumably the Reds did not want to put too much strain on the de facto "unity of action" they had to some extent achieved among the workers, although leaders of the non-Communist unions continued to resist the blandishments of a Popular Front appeal...
...British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied that the British approach was "cooperative and constructive," and Cabot Lodge, bowing to the inevitable, accepted a compromise that was a U.S. capitulation in everything but name. In deference to the U.S., the Assembly might not actually invite Russia to the conference. It could simply recommend that a Soviet representative be seated...