Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right Turn. It is not the familiar old civil-rights split between North and South (which has been pretty well bridged this session), but a growing, widening fault line between the Johnson-Rayburn moderates and the liberals, who read last November's 283-153 House victory and 64-34 Senate victory as a mandate for massive federal spending programs. The Democratic National Committee, chaired by fiery Paul Butler, has all but broken off relations with congressional leaders. Last week the dolittle, talk-much Democratic Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman. Soapy Williams) fired another salvo...
Budget on Main Street. The man really responsible for the Democratic split is none other than the lame-duck (by XXII Amendment) President of the U.S., whom Johnson had written off last January in his own "State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats. With the help of a booming economy, Dwight Eisenhower has managed to sell his balanced budget on Main Street. (Says New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton: "A lot of fellows used to tell me how alarmed people were back home about the budget, but I never believed it. My voters never cared about these big problems down...
...Canada put preservation of the Commonwealth above affection for the mother country, and at the United Nations joined the U.S. in pressing for a ceasefire. With Australia and New Zealand backing Britain, Canada's stand reassured the Asian members of the Commonwealth, may well have prevented a disastrous split between the group's white and nonwhite members...
...Glue. Disparities do not split the Commonwealth for the simple reason that greater likenesses hold it together. The most important are British law and the British parliamentary tradition. From Barbados to Tasmania to Quebec City, courts generally work well, and black-robed Speakers of the House keep lawmaking orderly and pondered. Other ingredients in the Commonwealth glue...
High Tempers. The Christian Democrats hesitated to split away from the old man; in so doing, they would risk destroying the party itself. But tempers were high, even among many Adenauer supporters, as Gerstenmaier set July i as the date, and West Berlin as the place, for elections for the presidency (this too was in defiance of Adenauer, who thought that a Bundestag session convened in Berlin instead of Bonn would be considered provocation by the Russians...