Word: transfering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill stipulated that 1) the Defense Secretary's authority must flow through the service secretaries-"legalized bottleneck," said the President; 2) Congress could, in effect, veto Pentagon decisions to transfer major combat functions of the services-''endorsement of duplication and standpattism," said Ike; and 3) each member of the Joint Chiefs and each service secretary had license to deal with Congress "on his own initiative" -"legalized insubordination" to the Commander-in-Chief...
...provision giving Congress what amounts to a veto over any Pentagon decision to transfer or abolish a "major combatant function" is an "endorsement of duplication and standpattism...
This remarkably peaceful transfer of power was a tribute to an entire nation's controlled anxieties, to the sophistication of politicians skilled at maneuvering to the danger point but not beyond it, and to the correctness of the difficult man who asked France for vast powers...
Should a failure of my attempt show that I made a mistake . . . the only road open to me would be to transfer immediately all my powers to the president of the National Assembly...
...voyage is sponsored by Non-Violent Action Against Nuclear Weapons, a committee of pacifist leaders who feel that pacifism is not a negative refusal to fight; but on the contrary, the most positive approach to world problems. They advocate a constructive program for peace, which would transfer the effort, resources and intelligence now used in preparations for war to a plan for non-violent national defense. Fully aware of the need to resist the growth of communism, they yet look on war as only strengthening totalitarianism everywhere, and deny the assumption that "the massive engine of modern...