Word: longterm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senators for the first postwar term. Of the 344 Senators, 107 were Senators "by right," which means that they got their seats automatically: five appointed by the President for bringing renown to Italy; one for being an ex-President ; the rest for being oldtime anti-Fascist legislators or longterm political prisoners under Fascism. This constitutional oddity has worked to the Reds' advantage. They elected only 36 Senators in 1948, but picked up a bonus of 31 more seats "by right" among ex-prisoners. Together with the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialist faction, this gave them a solid 100-man obstructionist bloc...
Dean Acheson last week invited U.N. to settle the "Question of Formosa" and its "longterm political" status (see above). What effect did this action have on Formosa? John Osborne, senior TIME & LIFE correspondent in the Pacific, was in Taipei when news of Acheson's step reached the Nationalist capital. His 'report...