Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...covert U.S. support. The previous High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, had steadfastly refused to meet BDJ leaders. But shortly after the Reds invaded Korea, the U.S. cloak & dagger Central Intelligence Agency decided to prepare for a similar Red move into West Germany. It organized BDJ as a potential partisan group, and thought it could control its sympathies. Whether CIA was worried by the Nazi caste in BDJ is not yet clear. But last spring, to its horror, the CIA discovered the BDJ blacklist and learned that it had been played by BDJ for a patsy. CIA quickly tried to shake...
...great effort has been made to identify Eisenhower with McCarthy. He has appeared on the same platform with him, and endorsed "all Republican-candidates for Congress." While this blanket endorsement is blindly partisan, it is neither strong nor unusual. Ike has specifically denounced McCarthy's methods in terms so direct that no one can honestly doubt his meaning. On the other hand, Stevenson has not renounced any Democratic candidate; he has appeared with Paul Dever...
...highly partisan audience of 150 laughed several times and booed once as Miss Thompson charged that Palestine was created by force, and not by United Nations mediation. She was opposed by Bartley Crum, lawyer and author of "Behind the Silken Curtain," who said Israel is potentially the greatest friend the Arabs ever...
Compared to Kennedy, then, Senator Lodge stands out in terms of legislative leadership, originality of sponsored acts, and the realism and consistency of his foreign policy votes. Since Governor Stevenson is insisting on a bi-partisan foreign policy, Lodge is vital, for only he can dampen the wild cries of the nco-isolationist Republicans and assume the role that Vandenberg so ably carried out. It would be folly for Massachusetts to replace Lodge's seniority, ability, and usefulness with the freshman mediocrity of Kennedy...
...Speciator's policy was loudly protested. Many felt that a newspaper which is financially supported by compulsory student contributions, as Spectator is, should assume a non-partisan position innational politics. Or, on the other hand, it should devote an equal amount of editorial space to each candidate. Some members of the Eisenhower group claimed that Spectator was not even doing this in its straight news coverage...