Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadowed rooms, lanky, sharp-featured Cavendish Cannon, 54, had done one of the cold war's outstanding jobs. He sniffed trouble in the air before the Tito Cominform split burst into the open, then begged his superiors to give Tito's government the encouragement and limited support it needed to keep the rebellion thriving, without buying Tito's own party line. But Cannon had worked himself into a state of exhaustion and a case of stomach ulcers. Last week he packed his bags and headed homeward for a rest and a new assignment...
...votes, said Spaak, the institution of the monarchy itself could be endangered. "The King would render the country an immense service," added Spaak, "if he agreed to abdicate. If this sacrifice is above his strength, the King could say he would return only with wide popular support . . . at least two-thirds of the whole country...
...real signiflence of the recent crisis is as evidence of the chronic weakness of French government, an ominous weakness in a country that is a key to Western European recovery. France is apparently incapable of a government with sufficient Assembly support and strong enough leadership to carry through a long range program. Typically, the regimes of the last twenty years have been weak coalitions of moderates, able to reach agreement on only a few immediate issues, and held together mostly by a common fear of extremists of the Right and Left...
...factors behind France's instability is the five year term for members of the Assembly. With their security assured for so long a period, political discipline is lax: splinter parties can refuse to support the government and cause its collapse on unimportant issues without risking new elections...
...Dealers to Senator Taft. There is no majority party, and for two years, the Communists, who have a plurality, have not been represented in the Cabinet. To add to the difficulties, the three parties in the center coalition, the Socialists, committed to a planned economy, the Popular Republicans, drawing support from Catholic trade unions, and the Radicals, devoted to private enterprise, are split on a whole series of issues...