Word: sidetracked
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...other resolution, jointly sponsored by India and the eleven Asian and Arab nations, was plainly designed to sidetrack the U.S. measure and open the way for admission of Communist China to U.N. It called for an immediate conference with Peking, while the fighting in Korea continued. Purpose: to get "all necessary elucidations and amplifications" of Peking's latest message to the U.N. relayed by India. That message, which Warren Austin had bitingly called "not much more than a postal card," had in effect notified U.N. that Peking would agree to a cease-fire only on its own terms...
...housing were brushed aside for a specific promise. Cried 38-year-old Harmar Nicholls, M.P. for Peterborough: "Our message should be this: that from existing stocks and available labor we should guarantee to give housing first call up to 300,000 houses a year." When the committee tried to sidetrack the figure 300,000, pandemonium broke loose, hundreds of voices chanted, "We want...
...Good Man, But . . ." The Dewey and Taft camps denied that they had any "understanding" that they would work together to sidetrack the Stassen bandwagon. But Stassenites thought they had spotted at least a willingness of the two groups to work together. They pointed to Omaha, where Senator Hugh Butler's machine had been expected to deliver strongly for Taft. Instead, when Stassen strength and Taft weakness became evident, it delivered for Dewey. The final Omaha results: Dewey, 12,500; Stassen, 9,000; Taft...
...Churchill's case, it was a question of caution. On three separate occasions he tried to sidetrack BOLERO for a less risky venture. The last time, Stimson wrote angrily in his diary: "As the British won't go through with what they agreed to, we will turn our backs on them and take up the war with Japan." In Roosevelt's case, it was a question of "some operation in 1942" and a "lingering predilection for the Mediterranean." The resulting compromise was the invasion of North Africa, a bitter disappointment to Stimson, but "the only operation that...
...gave the agitators a big boost. Thereafter, calm discussion of the bases deal was impossible. Politicos, their eyes on next May's presidential election, began to play it safe. Last week, after 10,000 people paraded outside the National Assembly, a special committee brought out reservations designed to sidetrack the agreement...