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Last week representatives of the three friendly countries met to reconcile their growing differences. They agreed on "temporary safeguard measures" to be applied in the event of a 15% drop in any industry's production. In such case, they would
...Administration does not argue that the Bricker Amendment is totally pointless. It recognizes the same danger that worries Bricker and his supporters. But it contends that the present scope of the treaty-making power is necessary and that the nation has a safeguard in the requirement that treaties must be approved by the President and two-thirds of the Senators. As Secretary Dulles said in his testimony: "It takes quite an artist to amend the Constitution . . . The men who wrote it did a very good...
...National Council authorized a committee to safeguard American freedom from both Communist infiltration and "wrong methods of meeting that infiltration." It would be called the "Committee on the Maintenance of American Freedom," with "instructions to watch developments which threaten the freedom of any of our people or their institutions...
Pointed Question. From the start, Radford made it clear that he had changed his mind about a lot of things since 1949. New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges wanted to know whether Radford now considered the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command "a primary safeguard...
...only hindrance on the government is a requirement that, in cases of great importance, the Storting itself must initiate the leveling duties, but even this safeguard is cold comfort. For it is up to the government in the first place to decide which cases merit the Storting's attention, and in the second place the government can go right ahead without the Storting if it decides that a wait is dangerous. Moreover, businessmen ordered to pay these special levies have no recourse...