Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago last week CBS Board Chairman William Paley urged fellow-broadcasters to put controversial shows on the air and not worry about the verbal brickbats flung by partisan viewers. Said Paley: "Oldtime editors used to take such threats and actions in their stride, as part of their occupation. I think we broadcasters can afford a certain amount of the same stride in the face of our letter-writing, telegraph and telephone critics. If we are fair and responsible in our decisions, we will gain the approval and the respect of the large majority of the people...
Everybody's Spy. Lausman had never lacked physical courage. In 1940 he helped organize the Prague anti-Nazi underground, escaping to London just a jump ahead of the Gestapo; in 1944 he parachuted into Slovakia to lead the abortive Banska Bystrica partisan rising. But as the world split anew between Communism and the West, he lacked the intellectual courage to choose. In 1946 he praised the Russians; on Feb. 20, 1948 he turned about and said: "We are not naive enough to offer ourselves up to the Communists." But five days later, when the Reds kidnaped Czechoslovakia, he stood...
This difference points out why the Democrats should not try to catch McCarthy and Eisenhower in the same net. For such an effort might dissuade the President from continuing his offensive against the Senator, or, at best, make his task harder. To play partisan politics at this time will confuse and hinder what is shaping up as a bipartisan drive to destroy this totalitarian thug, and restore party competition to the area of trust where it must be to survive in a democracy...
...down the whole story. The result is only disappointing insofar as it never gets behind the man to the driving attitudes of the section he represented. White details the well-known Taftian qualities: the bluntness, integrity, intellectual forcefulness and parliamentary skill which made him the Republicans most respected partisan. Recounting Taft's Republicans' most respected partisan. But the actions and attitudes of the Republican Old Guard, the core of Taft's national influence, emerged from The Taft Story as inexplicable as they entered...
...short, Taft was a big enough man to prevent the Old Guard from passing the limits of responsible partisan competition. But his death removed this check, and allowed the Jenners and McCarthys of the Old Guard to plow on unrestrained. It is they who must be understood, to be better combatted. The Taft Story tells much about their dead leader. White could now make an even better contribution to understanding American politics if he could use his background in Taft and Congress to explain the more difficult, and currently more important story, of the people Taft...