Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...00President has made a momentous decision and proclaimed a policy which every citizen of the United States should support...
...hope, too, that we will find a way to create an atmosphere of genuine bipartisanship in which our foreign policy can be supported by all citizens. For it is necessary that those who are trying to destroy the free world clearly understand that we will unanimously support the man who takes the leadership-and that man necessarily will have to be the President of the United States...
Britain: Laborites in the House of Commons cried "shame" at word of the U.S. landings, but Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell rejected the demands of leftist Laborites for a Commons vote on the issue of British support. Two days later, when Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced the dispatch of British paratroopers to Jordan, Labor again demanded a vote, and left itself wide open for a shrewd riposte by Macmillan: "If it is not right to vote against America, why is it right to vote against Britain?" The censure of British intervention was defeated...
France dispatched a carrier, a cruiser and three destroyers to the Lebanon coast for a quick show of support to the U.S., but did not go ashore, where the Lebanese people have unhappy memories of French rule...
Last week Tennessee churchmen were hard at work soliciting support for a solid privileged-communication law from all five candidates in next month's gubernatorial primary. So far, the three leading candidates have promised, if elected, to propose such a law to the legislature...