Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit tool and die maker, and as such have built dies and fixtures for various new military developments. No one asked me to pass moral judgment on these projects. They handed me the blueprints, they ordered the steel, and told me to make a delivery date . . . Now I'll grant that building an atomic bomb requires a higher order of intelligence than die making, but . . . the atomic scientists and Detroit's die makers are links in the same chain. The atomic scientist, for all his education (and probably finer moral development), is no more entitled to obstructionist tactics...
...that would ultimately lead to Communist conquest. Then he made an astonishing proposal: Committees of the 84th Congress, early next year, should "summon the State and Defense officials and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fully inquire into our foreign and defense policy to find out where in their judgment it will take us and whether ... a basic change in the direction of our policy is warranted...
COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND, Washington bureau chief of the Republican New York Herald Tribune : THE more the Administration's explainers explain the dismissal of John Paton Davies as a "security risk" on the ground that he showed bad "judgment," principally while serving in China ten years ago, the less it satisfies many in Washington who listen to it. Mr. Davies has devoted his whole adult life to the Foreign Service. The latest security board to hear the evidence - eight previous security boards having cleared him - found Mr. Davies completely loyal, completely devoted to the United States and never imprudent with...
Davies' judgments were not accepted in Washington. They did not become policy. If they had, it is entirely probable that they would not have averted a pro-Soviet Chinese regime. But neither did any policy which the United States did pursue. America is not going to develop a mature, resourceful, intellectually honest Foreign Service by firing a veteran Foreign Service officer as a security risk principally because of differences of policy judgment...
...boys get out," says one of McCoy's men, "they come back with new ideas, and the whole negotiation may collapse." Ounce of Prevention. Just as important as mediation is the FMCS's arbitration service, in which McCoy provides an impartial arbitrator to sit in judgment and hand down a decision. The Government's only role is to suggest a list of arbitrators; labor and management choose the man, pay the costs, and agree beforehand to abide by the decision. Arbitrators have been so successful at their jobs that requests for their services jumped 55% in fiscal...