Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SEN. MCCARTHY has done nothing to close the breach within the Republican Party by accusing President Eisenhower of being soft toward Communism. Moreover, his surprising blast at the President has given aid and comfort to his enemies and distressed many of his friends. If we think Sen. McCarthy was off-base in asserting that the Eisenhower Administration has failed to move against the Communists at home while placating them abroad, we likewise believe there were some grounds for his intemperate attitude toward the President. It is perhaps too late to heal the breach between the White House...
PRESIDENT Eisenhower and Sen...
...Sen. Knowland [sounds] more like a man having a private nightmare than like a responsible political leader. His is the familiar nightmare of how in about five years the Soviet Union will have achieved atomic armaments so great that the free world will "become paralyzed and immobilized by the realization that the United States and the Soviet Union could act and react upon one another with overwhelming devastation." When this atomic stalemate is reached the Soviet Union will "seek to take over the peripheral nations bite by bite...
What is more, in Western Europe as a whole the Communist position has deteriorated. All that this shows is that the relation between atomic power and the ebb and flow of Communism is complicated and indirect. There is no ground for Sen. Knowland's prediction that an atomic stalemate means the Communist conquest of the world...
Republican Majority Leader William Knowland's now famous speech warning against the dangers of an "atomic stalemate" has been much criticized for warmongering, doom-merchandising and bad logic. But in all the criticism of Sen. Knowland's position, no really convincing answer to the questions he posed has been forthcoming. First, he senses that a deal with the Soviets may be in the making. Second, Knowland wants also to serve notice on the Communist rulers that there is a price which the United States will not pay for peace. Third, he wants to remind the American people that...