Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagon. After Stevenson's first proposal, Harry S. Truman, who gave the order in 1950 for the U.S. to start H-bomb development, commented that "our power to guard the peace would be weakened" if tests were halted. Last week, in the political wilds of northwestern Pennsylvania, Truman was asked if he had come to agree with Stevenson. The old Democrat swallowed hard. "I'm in the same wagon," he said. "I can't be anywhere else...
...both Presidents Truman and Eisenhower have made clear, cannot safely end H-bomb tests until the entire system of atomic-weapons production is placed under a workable mutual-inspection system. And although he has a few scientists in his corner, Stevenson is boldly down-facing the experts when he questions the "sense" of further hydrogen development. Even now, the U.S. and Russia are engaged in a desperate race for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a hydrogen payload. For the U.S. to test the missile package without continuing work on its thermonuclear warhead would give the Soviets a disastrous...
...left-wing viewers-with-alarm begged Harry Truman to stow the A-bomb away in the national attic. The Russians, they said, could not possibly develop the bomb for at least a decade. Truman refused -and the Soviet Union, depending heavily on Joseph Stalin's army of scientists and his very effective spies, came forth with the atomic bomb in 1949. Again, the hand-wringers pleaded with Truman not to go ahead with the H-bomb. Truman did go ahead-and because he did, the U.S. got under the wire by a few short months and escaped the earth...
...Lewis Douglas, Arizona banker, the New Deal's first (1933) Director of the Budget, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain under Truman and three-time Demo cratic Congressman, backed Eisenhower (as he did in 1952) for his unique international "stature and substance," but promised to work hard for the local Arizona Democratic ticket...
...Bloomington (111.) Pantagraph, Adlai Stevenson's family newspaper, reversed its 1952 position and endorsed Stockholder Stevenson. Explained the independent Pantagraph: in 1952 Stevenson was sponsored by an entrenched Truman Administration, but "today he is a free man ... in no way obligated to the New Deal, the Fair Deal, or any other deal...