Word: roadblockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week postponed "to a later time" (translation: to a later session of Congress) any hopeful attempt to repeal the so-called Connally Reservation of 1946, a roadblock to effective U.S. use of the World Court for settling international disputes. Both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon had sought the abolition as a step toward world rule of law. Secretary of State Christian Herter and Attorney General William P. Rogers took strong stands in testimony before the committee. The move to repeal was sponsored by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, had the support...
...before the Association's House of Delegates meeting in tense session in Chicago last week. Malone, braving a few whistles and catcalls, was leading an impassioned counterattack against a guerrilla action led by Seattle's Frank Holman. also an A.B.A. past president (1948-49), to throw a roadblock into A.B.A.'s program to make world rule of law a reality...
...roadblock was an attempt by Holman and a pickup band of supporters to get the association to reverse itself on a 13-year-old stand. In 1947 the Bar Association went on record opposing the so-called Connally Reservation, pushed through the U.S. Senate in 1946 by Texas' Senator Tom Connally, which reserves to the U.S. the right to withhold any case from the jurisdiction of the World Court in Geneva by calling it a "domestic issue.'' Since domestic disputes are actually exempt from World Court action anyhow, the lawyers knew that the Connally Reservation would serve...
...night last week, tanks, guns and truckloads of troops rumbled out of the Cairo area toward Sinai. An Indian diplomat, hurrying to catch a ship at Port Said, was halted by a roadblock, had to make a frantic appeal to the Foreign Office before he could proceed. The entire army was alerted, transportation requisitioned, hospitals commandeered...
Federal protection of Negro rights may be a hotter issue before the Democratic Convention than after it. The image of Texan Lyndon Johnson as a Southerner is the biggest single roadblock between him and the nomination. If Johnson is not the Democratic nominee (and the odds as of now are against him), the civil rights issue may be pretty well neutralized. Nixon has spoken out forthrightly for civil rights progress, says that the goal is "equality of opportunity for all Americans." Humphrey, Kennedy and Symington all have unspotted voting records on civil rights. All three Senators (and Johnson too) back...