Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retreat-which would have been called betrayal short months ago-the Leadership Conference had plenty of company. Word spread that Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, had helped author the amendment that weakened the bill by requiring jury trials in contempt cases. The New York Times, which had scored the jury trial amendment a few days before, urged the Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock...
...Miscalculation." Last week, in just such an exercise of military futility, some 200 British ground troops (infantrymen of the Cameronians and the 15th/19th King's Royal Hussars) were not only in action in Oman, but had been forced into a brief but prudent retreat. Casualties among British regular forces: six cases of heat prostration...
When Mrs. Yovicsin didn't hear from him, she called Harvard and then alerted the police; and the hunt was on, only to end quite unspectacularly when Yovicsin called back to civilization from his golfing retreat in Allentown...
...district supervision, a plan that would inevitably admit some Negro students to white schools (e.g., in the Washington suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria), but can ultimately withstand court tests better than the Byrd strategy of massive resistance. "Massive resistance," he argues, is a "massive myth leading to massive retreat and massive surrender." Underscoring Dalton's analysis, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Virginia, West Virginia. Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina) last week ruled Virginia's 1956 Pupil Placement Act unconstitutional...
...years ago-unite!" When Macmillan got up to speak he was heckled by a group of empire-minded Tory diehards (seven were evicted). Macmillan pitched his arguments to their prejudices: he knew that they fear the diminution of Britain's stoutly held independence and deplore the retreat from empire. Said Macmillan: "Anybody of my age [he is 63] who looks back upon his life must reflect with sorrow on what Europe has done to itself in that time. Twice in a generation Europe has torn itself apart in bitter, internecine struggle. By this means (let us face...