Word: unilateralist
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Again, all praise to the editors for rejecting the flaming unilateralist approach. In this era of sifting strontium such temperance from Tocsin is truly commendable...
Other samplers of British opinion guess that only some 8-10% of Britons are fundamentally unilateralist, and warn against misjudging even the temper of those who march as Hitler once misjudged the fighting temper of British youth. They recall that only seven years after students in the Oxford Union overwhelmingly voted in 1933 that they would never fight for king and country, many were dying in the Battle of Britain. Some articulate Britons guide C.N.D. Among them: Angry Old Philosopher Bertrand Russell, 88; fiery Socialist M.P. Michael Foot; Transport and General Workers' Union Boss Frank Cousins; and C.N.D. Chairman...
...Others argue that even surrender is preferable to extinction ("I would rather be Red than dead"). The Manchester Guardian's David Marquand has called the ban-the-bombers "the new blimps." "The nationalism of Aldermaston," wrote Marquand, "is uncannily like that of Colonel Blimp. One of the main unilateralist arguments is that if Britain ceased to rely on nuclear weapons, other countries would be obliged to follow suit. That argument could only take root in a country which has not yet realized it is no longer a great power, and has forgotten that moral influence is a euphemism...
...when he asks them to make contributions to the West's foreign aid budget or to the NATO armies, he must remember that they form nothing like a United States of Europe. The nationalism of de Gaulle, the supra-nationalism of Adenauer, the unilateralist leanings of an important segment of the British Labour Party, the bitterness of France or of Belgium over its allies' behavior in U.N. debates on colonialism, are all powerful influences on the workings of NATO. Kennedy must be ready to roll a lot of oranges, for tact has become the most useful virtue...
...shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched...