Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Working hand-in-glove, the two old demagogues had used the legislative weapons given them by seniority to crowd into the whole field of foreign and domestic policy. Other members were threatened and badgered if they failed to go along with the McKellar-McCarran axis. Administration officials were called away from their jobs and up to Capitol Hill to be bullied and harassed. Under McCarran's chairmanship, the EGA watchdog committee (which wanted $344,000 expense money next year) had become a dirt-digging machine to supply Kenneth McKellar's rancorous attacks...
...asked: What now? Dean Acheson had an answer that was no answer at all. The U.S., he said, was "to encourage in every feasible way the development of China as an independent and stable nation"; it was to stand firmly "opposed to the subjection of China to any foreign power." Moreover, warned the Secretary, if Communist China tried aggression against its Asiatic neighbors, then we "would be confronted by a situation violative of the principles of the United Nations Charter." Pressed to translate this wind into any language meaning action, Acheson was evasive...
Meeting in joint session and behind closed doors last week, the Senate's Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees coldly informed the Administration that if the bill was to have any chance at all, it would have to be redrafted...
Okefenokee Bear. Among the 900 guests that showed up one night last week were all the members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec...
...Council, created last winter by Britain, France and the Benelux countries, is headed by a Committee of Ministers (the Foreign Ministers of the ten founding nations) on which each member votes according to his nation's policy. The Consultative Assembly, however, is a revolutionary departure: its 87 members* represent political groups inside their countries (excluding Communists), are supposed to act as Europeans; thus, a Winston Churchill could team up with the champions of capitalist democracy from other countries, a Herbert Morrison with Socialists. But the Consultative Assembly's agenda is controlled by the Committee of Ministers. The limitation...