Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blackball. Nixon's view of the rift, according to Mazo: "We are not unfriendly. We are two individuals going our own ways." Last week the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan added another note. According to the Tribune, Chief Justice Warren in 1957 blackballed an invitation to Vice President Nixon from the American Bar Association to attend the celebrated London meeting at which more than 3,000 U.S. and British lawyers examined the basis of the common law (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957). Said Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A...
Admission of Red China to the U.N. might eventually lead to a rift between China and Russia, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, asserted last night in a World Federalist debate on America's China policy...
Opposed to recognizing Red China or admitting her to the U.N., William Henry Chamberlin, correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, insisted that such actions would violate principles of the U.N.Charter. He admitted the possibility of a rift between China and Russia, but claimed that only a "firm policy" would help create such a rift...
Last week one leading Vatican spokesman said that "the chances of healing the rift between the Roman and Orthodox churches are better now than they have been for hundreds of years." A major factor in the new climate has been Vatican support of the Orthodox churches against increasing pressure from Moscow. But one immovable foundation of Roman doctrine seems to stand in the path of reunion: the insistence that the Bishop of Rome is successor of St. Peter, Vicar of Christ and supreme ruler of all Christians...
Said Rockefeller afterward: "Mr. Nixon is going to be a tremendous help in New York. He has brought in a fresh point of view." What about the rift? "Bunk." What about 1960? "I have no other plans but to become Governor of New York. I have every expectation to serve a four-year term as Governor, if elected." Dick Nixon, asked about 1960 prospects too, added: "I'm concerned enough about 1958. We have enough...