Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recommendations, I repeat, were made from my best judgment of what is the adequate defense structure for these United States, particularly in the long-term basis. And, naturally, the decision has not been altered. And at this moment, I don't see any chance of its being altered...
EXECUTIVE Order 10450 requires that the hiring and continued employment of federal workers must, in the judgment of department and agency heads, be "clearly consistent" with the interests of national security. The order recognizes that an employee may be loyal, yet still be a security risk. The homosexual may be easy prey to blackmail. The person with relatives behind the Iron Curtain may be exposed to overwhelming pressures. The alcoholic may unintentionally blab secrets...
...Such a judgment is part of an administrative, not a judicial, process. Nevertheless, grave injustice can result when this process is mismanaged. The outcry over the case of Wolf Ladejinsky (TIME, Jan. 3) shows that the nation's ethical sense is not satisfied by the statement that "all doubt must be resolved in favor of the Government...
...point on which President Eisenhower and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appear to be in agreement is that the Chinese Communists will not press the Formosa crisis to a warlike conclusion. No single piece of tangible evidence supports the official judgment in Washington and Taipeh. This judgment of the Formosa crisis has been reached, very evidently, by calculating what we would do if we were the Chinese Communists ruling in Peking. But it is always well to remember that we are not they. Those who hold this conviction somehow manage to overlook both Red China's warlike preparations and warlike...
...Anglican report closes with a few blows against its own breast. M.R.A., it says, "is in its way a judgment on the Church. In spite of its deficiencies and even its dangers, it has filled a vacuum in the lives of many men and women who . . . have been bewildered by the vast problems of our age ... But the vacuum should have been filled by a living and prophetic Christian faith, rooted in the life of the Church...