Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge International Amphitheater. In a twelve-minute address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said he: "Americans must never and will never let the issue of security and peace become a pawn of anyone's political chess game...
...myself to his coattails." Added a Californian: "Ike hinders us today. His speech was a step in the right direction, but he could help us a great deal more. He's never seemed to care too much about patronage and things like that." Said a ranking Wisconsin Republican: "Let's face it; Ike's a hindrance to the whole show...
...said, "are the facts of the future. And while the future is very close -extremely close-it is still under our control. There is no point in arguing that things might have been different had things been done differently in the past. The past is already for historians. Let us seek solutions so that the future may be written by free-world historians...
...President and McElroy will have to hustle to beat Congress. At week's end Connecticut Republican Senator Prescott Bush let it be known that he is drafting his own legislation, based upon the Rockefeller Report, calling for a chief of staff empowered, under the Secretary of Defense and the President, to define roles and missions among the three services and achieve "efficient unified commands." The President's program was essentially the one previewed by Labor Secretary Jim Mitchell before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City last fall (TIME, Dec. 16). Its principal weapon against labor racketeering...
...State Department let it be known that Ambassador John Moore Allison would soon be transferred from crisis-tangled Indonesia to the U.S. embassy in Prague. Official version: the U.S. needs an able, realistic man in Communist Czechoslovakia to succeed able, realistic U.S. Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson, who has met Red China negotiators in 73 face-to-face sessions, will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow...