Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When in Rome. Among Rome's 26 postwar dailies, most of them shrill, partisan organs, the American is the least opinionated. As guests in Italy's house, its publishers steer clear of politics. Their editorials are not their own, but strings of carefully culled quotes from leading U.S. or British papers...
...strong element of truth in this description of the American European political cleavage. Whether this clear difference in political outlook will seriously affect the construction of a stable peace will be determined within the next two years as Republicans attempt to cross party lines in a bi-partisan foreign policy. The question is whether this policy will be truly bi-partisan or whether the old guard of the G.O.P. will refute its conversion to international cooperation and return to its own brand of economic nationalism...
Americans must analyze this bi-partisan foreign policy carefully. Republicans achieved the majority in Congress with precious little said about foreign affairs. Thus the confusion within the G.O.P. on just what form American internationalism should take went by unnoticed. Distaste for Truman's domestic polities gave rise to an imposing carteblanche delivered to men of unknown sympathies. By 1948 Americans will know whether the Republican Party has become the new apostle of business like world cooperation or the avant-grade along the road back to the economic isolation...
Opposition to the Truman nomination exhibits, even from McKellar's partisan point of view, a case of political myopia. By attempting to institute the spoils system in atomic control, the former Senate President Pro Tem is dividing the few remaining Democrats, and rapidly convincing a worldful of people that American statesmen are still juggling the A-bomb in a Congressional circus...
...student-veterans at Harvard to join with the present 700 members of AVC here in working for a vigorous, non-partisan liberal program. Recent events demonstrate the pressing need for active participation in the influencing of problems on the international, national, and college level. We need every veteran at Harvard to work for those progressive measures which are, in the long run, to the best interests of both himself and every citizen...