Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headlined by the evening papers as a denuciation of the Senator. This is wishful thinking, for it is no such thing. Granted, the statement was the strongest the President has made yet on this issue, and displayed for the first time an understanding of the importance of the McCarthy threat to his own party program. Unfortunately, however, the President still seems unwilling to come out and say what is on his mind...
Yesterday's statement is an intelligent piece of analysis, both of the central issue of the recent McCarthy-Stevens dispute and of the larger threat of McCarthyism in beclouding Eisenhower's basic program. The President rightly defends the independence and authority of the executive branch of the Government and criticizes the complete "disregard of fair play" which has characterized McCarthy's recent Congressional inquiries. But the effect of his statements is largely vitiated by his continual unwillingness to openly oppose the Senator and what he stands for. So cautious is Eisenhower that he persists in his two-year policy...
...blind to the need for passage of many planks in his program. The Maine case in which a young McCarthy supporter has challenged liberal Republican Margaret Chase Smith in the Republican primaries mainly on the issue of her famed "Declaration of Conscience" is a perfect example of the threat. If Eisenhower allows the Communist issue to remain the main one, the wrong people will be elected and they will owe their allegiance not to him but to McCarthy...
...greatest threat to the program comes from Europe itself. By act of Congress, at least 50% of all OSP funds must now go to a formal European Defense Community or nations that belong to it. Europe has dragged its feet on EDC, with the result that of the $1 billion available for OSP in 1054 hardly any has been obligated. If the EDC plan falls through, OSP may well die with...
...scholarly, acrid pacifist of much ability and few scruples") and a poorer one of the Democratic Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ("an amiable, windy creature who knows almost nothing"). When World War I began. Roosevelt was an interventionist. He saw the invasion of Belgium as a desperate threat to the fabric of international law. and denounced Wilson's "spiritless neutrality" in the face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service. ("I and my four sons" were to be among...