Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Summer School professors agreed last night with Harold Stassen's suggestion that Vice-President Richard Nixon should be removed as President Eisenhower's running mate in the coming election...
Behind him the Vice President left crackling reaction to his long-distance debate with neutralism's high priest, Pandit Nehru (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Manila, on the first stopover of his journey (TIME, July 16), Nixon had re-emphasized U.S. views on "the fearful risk" of neutralism and the wisdom of collective security. In London, 6,667 miles away, attending the conference of British Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Nehru's sensitive ears picked up a personal implication. Retorted he: Nixon-Dulles pronouncements on neutralism constituted neither a democratic nor a happy approach to good international relations...
...Very Antithesis." Informed of Nehru's comment on his arrival in Karachi, Pakistan, Nixon said: "I think if Mr. Nehru would read my speech carefully . . . [he] would find that my speech is the very antithesis of undemocratic procedures . . . My answer to Mr. Nehru would be that anyone who suggests that Communist assistance ... is not inconsistent with independence and freedom is not reading correctly the lessons of history...
...Washington, election-conscious Democrats were quick to jump into the debate. Tennessee's Estes Kefauver took the Senate floor to complain that the Nixon-Dulles policies may "drive India and the other nations of Asia who follow her lead into more open friendship with the Soviet system." Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey suggested that Nixon, in sounding off about Nehru in Karachi, had used "the wrong place to say the wrong thing at the wrong time." Although some State Department deskmen agreed that it was indelicate diplomacy to answer India's leader from the capital of his unfriendly...
...Karachi last week U.S. Vice President Nixon bluntly warned that any country that takes Soviet economic aid on the supposition that it is without strings is likely to wind up with "a rope tied around its neck." But he went on to declare that U.S. aid to such countries might help them maintain their independence of Russia. A Pakistani official translated it this way to New York Times Correspondent Abe Rosenthal: "Mr. Nixon says Soviet aid will make you a satellite. Then he says we will keep on giving you money if you take aid from the Russians...