Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mood of the U.S. Congress. Just before President Eisenhower proposed his Middle Eastern resolution, the Gallup poll asked coast-to-coast whether the U.S. should or should not keep on spending its recent average of $4 billion a year on foreign aid. Result: in favor, 58%; against, 28%; no opinion, 14%. Pro-foreign aid sentiment, Gallup reported, cut cleanly across party lines-59% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats, 58% of independents...
...Guaranteed Rights. The debate on Rule XXII not only produced Nixon's unequivocal and unexpected opinion. It also showed, when the vote came, a stronger block of liberal votes (55 to 38) than Southern Senators had anticipated. Banking on that liberal strength and on additional recruits drummed off the fence by the Nixon decision, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, the Republican whip, last week introduced the Administration's civil-rights measure. Little different from last year's bill, the Dirksen measure involved guaranteed minority voting rights, a presidential civil-rights commission, a civil-rights division within the Department...
...Premier of British choosing. Princes placed in office in such fashion can be as easily removed, to the public's indifference. But Nasser had not reached power that way, and was not so easily dislodgeable. This was one expert miscalculation; the second was the misjudgment of world opinion. In the deception that preceded the Suez venture and the evasions that followed it, Eden damaged the world's image of Britain. History's kindest verdict may be that he meant well and should have known better. The Evolution. The initiative to resign was Eden...
...Adenauer's Socialist rivals (whose leader Erich Ollenhauer is going to Washington too) have switched their talk from Marx to marks to catch West Germany's huge prosperity vote, and are seeking to show themselves not so dependent on the Atlantic alliance as Adenauer is. Opinion polls indicate that they are giving Adenauer's Christian Democrats a close race-so close, in fact, that a third party seems quite likely to tip the scales in forming Germany's new government next September. The third party: the right-wing Free Democrats...
...Police Force would be no cure-all. But it would be wrong to say that it could do no more than the member states themselves could do in any given situation. For if the U.N. is effective on political questions mainly as a place to express world public opinion, then an international police force would be one way to give this opinion unified and immediately available backing. If it were composed of small nations and neutral nations, it would be somewhat immune from Cold War commitments and could, at least in part, help make the U.N. something more than...