Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, the membership then amended the Constitution to change the group into a Council Against Appeasement, "to promote a united stand against Communist aggression...
...their joint statement, Dulles and Chiang expressed belief that, in the face of U.S.-Nationalist determination to stand firm, the Reds "will not put their policy to the test of general...
Brooks Atkinson, drama critic for the New York Times, disagreed with Norton's stand and said he felt that a small theatre would be "more practical." "For amateur actors, a 500-seat auditorium can be much more merciful," he commented...
...Harvard-Radcliffe U.N. Council has come out in favor of a "yes" vote on the N.S.A. referendum. A minority of the Council's Executive Board would like to record its opposition to this stand. We feel that the U.N. Council's activities should be, to quote a recent committee report, the "... dissemination of information towards the end of greater (international) understanding--and that the taking of policy stands would seriously limit this role." Only in cases where the U.N. Council is directly and formally concerned should it override this principle. Thus the Executive Board could, and in our opinion should...
...Harvard's voting delegates of "lack of preparation and of good judgment" at the annual National Student Congress in the past few years. He also claimed that the Council has "misrepresented" several functions and services of the NSA, as well as the costs of membership. He thus criticized the stand taken by Andrew Warshaw '59, who felt that the resolutions of the congress were handled with a "slapdash method...