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Britain's most venerable and most crotchety critic, George Bernard Shaw, just couldn't be bothered. The Shavian reason: there is a tacit agreement between critic and management not to go to law, since the critic always libels and the management always agrees to the libel in exchange for publicity...
...bounce him out of Spain. It failed miserably. Great Britain, looking ahead to the day when Gibraltar would be vulnerable, signed a trade agreement with the dictator, and the United States was afraid that Spain would be consumed by Civil War if Franco left the scene. With this tacit carte blanche, Franco launched a purge, the most ferocious since 1939, under the guise of an anti-communist crusade. He passed a succession law turning Spain into a fascist monarchy and made it a capital crime to be suspected of opposition to the government...
Against Aggression. The resolution, drafted with the full collaboration of the State Department, approved U.S. "association" with regional alliances for mutual defense under the U.N. Under it, the President would get tacit and prior approval to negotiate arrangements for mutual defense with Europe's Western Union. The Marshall Plan had offered the U.S.'s immense resources to assure Western Europe's economic security against Communist disruption. The Vandenberg resolution was its military corollary...
...approved, the resolution would give tacit approval to a new departure in U.S. foreign policy-the alignment of the U.S. with Europe, for the first time in its peacetime history, for mutual defense...
...such campaigns, since many excellent candidates are reluctant to go out and stump for votes. It is vitally important to stir up student interest in the Council, and to get the best men in office through sensible and thorough campaigns. Electioneering is surely worth a test; the tacit policy of leaving the voter alone has been tried and found distinctly wanting...