Word: facto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post Facto. In Indianapolis, Isaac ("Tuffy") Mitchell, serving 90 days in the Indiana State Prison for gambling, applied for and was issued a federal gambling stamp for "wagering...
...division into opposing camps, on the other hand, would only mean a solidification of the status quo. But this very fact makes it a dangerous capitulation, highly risky from both a military and a political point of view. For any such settlement would mean de facto recognition of the Communist Viet-Minh government, which has previously been only an outlawed guerilla band. A move of this kind would give tremendous impteus to Communist propaganda throughout Asia, and it would immeasurably increase the prestige of Red China as the self-styled protectors of Asian nationalism. Equally important are the military considerations...
...This duty extends to accusations from these unconstitutional investigations," the Lubells noted. "The attack can come either directly, by subpoena, or indirectly, by the public listing of an informer. In either case the moral obligation of the individual in society . . . is clear. . . . We will not cooperate in the de facto nullification of our Constitution and Bill of Rights...
...with such figures as Gerhard Eisler, Earl Browder, and Gerald L. K. smith. Yet Lattimore is at most a moderate liberal, as borne out by his address. He does not even support , as I believe a good many Harvard students do, the recognition of Red China as the de facto regime of that nation. Yet because of the vicious and totally false picture of his views presented by the American McCarthyism, a picture apparently accepted to some degree by the Crimeds, he is presented as a radical and unorthodox figure...
Bedrock Argument. The Four Power communique raised some questions which Dulles began to answer this week in private conferences with key Senators and Representatives. Didn't the mere invitation to Peking give Red China a new status among nations, and wasn't that a step toward de facto recognition? Not necessarily, said the State Department, calling attention to the fact that Dulles actually got Molotov to sign a clause in the communique saying that the invitation to China did not imply recognition. Moreover, China is going to Geneva not as a sponsoring power but as a government invited...