Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual meeting of our 191-member executive board, the secretary was authorized to write you on behalf of the entire membership, thanking you for the article...
...Australia's Sir Percy Spender: "It is not principle with which we are concerned here but expedience-the expediency of inexorable political circumstances." They also had been unmoved by two personal appeals from President Eisenhower to Chiang Kaishek, urging support for the notion of "universality" of U.N. membership.* But to the Nationalists, the logic of "universality" had nothing to do with fractions of Russia. And furthermore it might lead to the seating of Communist China...
...Before the sixth annual meeting of the National Council of Churches Division of Home Missions, the Rev. Willard M. Wickizer of Indianapolis predicted that if the ratio of church membership to population in the U.S. remains constant until 1975, Protestants will have to lay out some $8 billion for the construction of 105,000 new church buildings. This will mean, said Dr. Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion...
...admitted also. The U.S. must try for some quid pro quo: maintaining the Chinese Nationalists as the government of Formosa or insuring that Outer Mongolia remains outer. Mr. Dulles' main consolation, as he faces the task of breaking the news to the American people, is that next year's membership struggle on the East River will come only a month after a similar decision about a residence on the Potomac...
...nations, who now control the bulk of voting strength in the General Assembly, last week's actions of the big powers, throwing vetos at each other to keep various applicants out, evoked little sympathy. Since the veto-less Assembly has now assumed authority over all important UN decisions except membership, and since the U.S. has repudiated its stand against new members, Washington has little to lose by asking the Security Council to abolish the veto completely. If this proves impossible, Ambassador Lodge could propose that the veto be abolished on all membership matters. If the United States cannot maintain...