Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith knew Philip Jessup's part in that policy and disapproved of it. But would a vote to reject Jessup be construed as an acceptance of McCarthy's charges that Jessup was the next thing to a Commu nist? For days, Smith wrestled with this problem. Last week Smith exposed his troubled thinking to public view. He wrote: "I have known Philip Jessup for many years and I have absolute confidence in his integrity, ability and loyalty to his country. I am convinced that he has not and never had any connection with the Communist Party...
...symbol of a group attitude toward Asia which seems to have been proven completely unsound. This is not a case of mere difference of opinion. This is an issue that may well involve the future of Asia and the world." On this ground, Smith concluded, he would vote to reject Jessup's nomination. It was, he admitted, "the most difficult vote" in his seven years as a Senator...
...reacting to the Tory slogan, "A Vote for Labor Is a Vote for Bevan," Clement Attlee devoted a final broadcast to scotching the whispering campaign that, if elected, he would resign in favor of Bevan. "I am not going to resign," he said, "unless the people of this country reject my leadership...
...deplores laissez-faire education. It preaches religious tolerance but says that there is only one true religion. It weaves its value judgments and quotes-out-of-context into a superficially strong case for the narrowest sort of indoctrination. It is convincing enough so that Yale alumni, reading it, may reject Buckley's logic but still be perturbed a little at his picture of what the old school is teaching. They needn't worry. Bill Buckley went there for four years, and it didn't affect...
...West Germans hesitate to cut all ties with East Germany in favor of a military alliance with the West. Adenauer's chief domestic opponent, one-armed, one-legged Kurt Schumacher, whose Social Democrats control one-third of the seats in the Bundestag, called on "all farsighted [Germans] to reject these plans, including the military wishes of the allies." To the Allied High Commissioners, Adenauer complained that all this united Germany talk made it necessary for him to get more lenient terms from them. The allies wanted no part of that kind of bargaining. At that point negotiations recessed...