Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bridges and Reynolds argued that House membership matters little in carrying out the duties of the committees. "After all," Bridges said, "elections are often unbalanced. But they would seldom be unbalanced in the same House and in the same...
West Germany reacted with scorn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made plain that he will accept controls on German arms "only if others are controlled too." He said he favored the plan sponsored by Britain's Anthony Eden: full sovereignty for Germany and simultaneous membership in the Brussels Pact and the NATO alliance...
Bevan, who had got home from Red China first, demanded that the National Executive Committee reverse party policy and come out against arms or NATO membership for Germany. Attlee's men replied with one of those ingenious compromises that make peaceful coexistence possible between the two wings of the Labor Party: a policy favoring arms and sovereignty for the Germans but also offering to "consider" some more Big Three talks with the Russians. Since the Attleeites had the votes, Bevan was rebuffed...
Nehru's plan is a series of bilateral non-aggression pacts between Red China and other Asian countries, seemingly a harmless notion. But such pacts would exclude from Asia the protective power of the West, because membership in Nehru's system involved a commitment not to join in other alliances. It would prevent China's more nervous neighbors from joining together in self-protection, leave the Communists free to pick off, one by one, in the classic totalitarian manner, each nonaggressive neighbor...
Dudley has been agitating for years for full recognition as a House. At the same time, it has rarely been represented on either of the class committees. Should it be assured committee membership, it would, in effect, be accorded by the Council recognition as a House...