Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half Success. In time, what might most seriously jeopardize Eden's political standing and stature at home is not the morality of his action, or the morality of his defense of it. It will be the judgment that his policy failed to achieve what it was designed to achieve, and that the cease-fire agreement was the final, inconclusive half-measure of a series of mis calculations. He had taken only half the canal, and Nasser was still in power. The canal was blocked, the Iraq pipeline sabotaged, and Britain faced a winter of cold homes and industrial shutdowns...
...manifest right of any of these nations to take such decisions and actions, it is likewise our right, if our judgment so dictates, to dissent. We believe these actions to have been taken in error. For we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes...
Even so, by the time the General Assembly called the first emergency special session in its eleven-year history, it was clear that the Times's caustic judgment had roweled both NBC and CBS into at least limited action (ABC pre-empted only one half-hour show the entire evening). The national chains carried spotty U.N. pickups all evening, but when Secretary Dulles appealed to the world for support, ABC was preoccupied with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing...
Gobs of Dough. CBS issued no public statement, but a network spokesman admitted: "We were all wrong." CBS News Chief Sig Michaelson disagreed: "News coverage is a matter of editorial judgment. The big story was elsewhere. Besides, public interest in a U.N. session is small...
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini-and fully lived up to his sponsor's judgment...