Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candidate Warburton has made his campaign along Eisenhower Republican lines. He points out that the Eisenhower Administration has lived up to its mandate by ending the Korean war and averting a peacetime depression. He argues that employment is up 4% over 1949, the last peacetime year of the Truman Administration. Warburton's Eisenhower pitch is solid; he had an excellent pro-Ike voting record in the House...
Officially this places them in the classification "150X." After the Chinese Communists entered the Korean War, President Truman ordered all Chinese mainlanders studying or working in the technical sciences be denied exit visas not only to China, but to any other part of the world as well. The McCarran Act bears a similar clause, sealing the nation's borders to "150X" risks...
...took the North Koreans in the rear "in the classical Napoleonic pattern"-just like the dazzled Austrians at Treviso. But the Supreme Commander pushed on, never believing that the Chinese Communists would strike south across the Yalu River. By the time MacArthur could pull his retreating forces together again, Truman fired him for insisting that the Korean war could (and should) be fought on to victory. History may decide that MacArthur was right. Authors Willoughby and Chamberlain have produced no new documents or arguments to forward his case. But this well-phrased, ardent book can be taken as a medium...
THOMAS K. FINLETTER, Air Force Secretary during the Truman Administration, in his new book, Power and Policy...
Died. Burton Lee French, 79, longtime (1903-09, 1911-15, 1917-33) Republican Congressman from Idaho, onetime (1949-53) vice chairman of President Truman's Loyalty Review Board; after long illness; in Hamilton, Ohio...