Word: morgenthau
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...essay called "Common Sense and Theories of International Relations," Hans J. Morgenthau has examined both the tendency of political scientists to refrain from considering the basic policy questions about their research fields, and the practical, political effects of their "neutral" research...
...with the Chief Executive. When it came to the point of choosing between certain defeat of the South Vietnamese armies and the introduction of U.S. ground combat units, Johnson chose to fight. Except for such critics as General James Gavin, the never-again club was disbanded. As Professor Hans Morgenthau puts...
Weapons systems aside, the same is true in the equally uncertain area of foreign commitments and the deployment of forces. The approach to these essentially political problems has been essentially unchanged for 22 years. "If one should characterize American foreign policy in a sentence," Morgenthau observes in A New Foreign Policy for the United States, "one could say that it has lived during the last decade or so on the intellectual capital which was accumulated in the famous 15 weeks of the spring of 1947 when the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, fashioned...
Patman's probe focused on that mystique-shrouded feature of Swiss banking, the anonymous numbered account. Robert M. Morgenthau, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, testified that such accounts have become increasingly popular with Americans. Some who use them are underworld hoodlums, but many more are otherwise ordinary businessmen who play the Swiss numbers game to cheat Washington out of "tax revenues in the many millions of dollars." The various ways in which such accounts are used to avoid income taxes, said Morgenthau, "are almost as numerous as the ways of earning money" (see box next...
Ingenious Americans exploit numbered Swiss accounts in innumerable ways. Here are three that particularly disturb U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau...