Word: partisanship
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...list carefully weighed and balanced to avoid any unwonted partisanship, ardent Laborites, faithful aides of Prime Ministers Churchill and Eden (including five members of Churchill's secretariat), and deserving politicians in the dominions beyond the seas were all duly remembered by Her Majesty. Only Roger Bannister's name really caught the public fancy in a list largely devoted to bureaucrats rewarded and diplomats given titles appropriate to their jobs...
...rate, let us stop this game of guessing. If we gear our foreign policy to the counting of ballots in 1956, then we and the rest of the free world will be falling into the worst pitfalls of appeasement. Our country cannot afford petty politics and bitter partisanship in its foreign relations. The Communist enemy, regardless of any momentary change of tactics, regardless of any treaty the Kremlin may sign, is bent on conquering the entire world-the United States not excluded-and remolding it in the form of the totalitarian dictatorship and slave economy imposed on the people behind...
...State Department gave heartening support to the ideal of bi-partisanship last week. Only a month ago, Secretary Dulles presented his fellow Republicans with an opportunity to scourge the entire Democratic Party when he obligingly released the Yalta documents. On Friday the Secretary went to the other extreme, however, and did his best to gratify a single Democratic congressman, Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania. Dulles' decision involved the incidental loss of his own special adviser on immigration problems, Edward J.Corsi, but the Secretary made the sacrifice without flinching, for the greater cause of good relations with a member...
...implications for the future, the State Department's action is even more disturbing. The government has once again made political strife over foreign policy the order of the day. But each succeeding step away from the ideal of bi-partisanship is harder to retrace than the last, until finally the point of no return is reached. Publication of the documents over British protests, moreover, has unnecessarily angered out best friends in Europe for the sake of a domestic police advantage. And France and Germany have been aroused at a time when our efforts to weld both countries into the western...
Multer is convinced the bill will pass the House if it ever gets through committee. "It's not a matter of partisanship," he said, "but only of public interest. If the bill gets to the floor, it will pass...