Word: scapegoatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arrested last November, he has nothing apparent in his record to justify Ulbricht's charge. In the calculated Communist view, however, Harich's record probably enhanced his merit as a scapegoat: there is nothing about it that would make him a martyr in student eyes, or even a symbol of resistance for the West...
...bitter aftermath of Suez, Jock Whitney, nominated last week to succeed Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, faces the awesome task of restoring full U.S.-British concord and confidence in a country split by a new sense of its own rights and wrongs, in which the U.S. is the most convenient scapegoat...
...Jock Whitney was born and raised to be nobody's scapegoat. During 30 years in the public eye, he has interested and involved himself energetically and capably in so many facets of American life that he is well equipped to hold his own on behalf of the Eisenhower Administration...
...Willing Scapegoat. In Washington, British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia had a confidential dinner with selected Washington pundits at the home of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Chalmers Roberts. There he confidentially criticized Dulles, explained that if Britain had not consulted the U.S. about the invasion of Egypt, Dulles had not consulted Britain on canceling the offer to build Egypt's Aswan High Dam. (The facts: Britain got one day's advance warning that the U.S. was considering cancellation; in any event, Britain had long been urging the U.S. to get tough with Nasser...
Actually, Washington did not object too much to being the scapegoat if that would help solve the crisis. By week's end the uproar, beneath its superficial abusiveness, was in fact creating fresh evidence that the character and vitality of the U.S.'s No. 1 ally was plainly not moribund. Many thoughtful Britons, in debating the crisis internally, had reasoned their way through the confusion to a new understanding of Britain's basic instincts for law and order. And in doing so they were once again in tune with that once-honored Freeman of the City...