Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public criticism [TIME, Oct. 6] of Mr. Dulles' suicidal foreign policy on Quemoy and Matsu was called a betrayal of our State Department which might lead the Communists to think we are bluffing and thereby involve us in a total war. Nixon would like to shut up public opinion simply because it exposes a ghastly mistake. Not to publish these crucial facts about the truth of public opinion in a crisis would be a mockery of democracy. Perhaps the majority of Americans will reject Nixon's brand of democracy in the next election...
Judge Potter Stewart, recently appointed to the Supreme Court, agreed in his opinion that some "impairment of this First Amendment freedom" was involved in the citation. He declined, however, to honor the plea of journalistic privilege, on the grounds that it was not incorporated in the common law, and could only be assured by legislation...
...which may be well and good and true in the particular case involved. Its truth, though, is not self-evident in a general application. With-out any statutory protection of confidential sources, any newspaperman may, under the logic of the opinion, be forced to reveal evidence which is not "of doubtful relevance or materiality" to a case. To a newspaper, at least, such logic is arguable...
...most important changes which adoption of the report would establish lie in the composition of the Council's membership. The Council's existence has rested on the democratic but unrealistic belief that it is the spearhead of student opinion. Elections affording an ambitious, personally motivated politician the opportunity to capitalize on undergraduate apathy do not result in true representation. With elections under the new House and Class constituency proposal, students may still have to elect politicians-but they will know their politicians better...
...after another, and Labor felt certain of its return to power. But since summer, as Britons' wrath at the Tories' Suez disaster faded, and once unpopular Tory anti-inflationary measures began building a new economic stability, the Macmillan government had bounced back to the top of the opinion polls. Laborites sensed that they might be headed not for office but for a third straight electoral defeat. Opening the conference, Party Chairman Tom Driberg conceded: "Our principles and policies have not yet had the impact on public opinion in Britain that they must have...