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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Golden Era. In an article calculated to raise the hackles on Republican necks, Professor Webb looked beyond the current farm and labor vote, and got the party in his sights down "the long gunbarrel of history." Historically, said Webb, "the debate swings around a principle. The party that originates the principle and establishes it, does so in a national crisis. As long as the principle being acted upon works, it is almost impossible to dislodge the party that discovered...
...this time, the commuter-residents of Greenwich (pop. 40,400) were in a genteel uproar. The Greenwich Community Concert Association summoned Adler and Draper before it, asked them if they believed in overthrowing the government by force. "No," they said. Did they believe in making changes by a majority vote? "Yes," they said. That was enough for the Association. The concert went on, Draper danced, Adler played the mouth organ. And they filed a $200,000 libel suit against Hester McCullough...
...when opponents arise who might challenge his position, he tries to win them over; if that does not work, Adenauer slowly undermines their prestige-sometimes by subtle press attacks, sometimes by carefully planted parliamentary questions about their conduct of office. The Bundestag elected him Chancellor by only a one-vote majority, but that did not worry Adenauer. In his 13-man cabinet, eight Christian Democrat ministers (of the remaining five, three are Free Democrats, two are members of the German Party) always assure him of a working majority. When he is asked if he can get cabinet approval...
...eight successive days, ending last Friday, the United Nations Political and Security Committee listened to talk about plans for peace-one submitted by Russia and one by the United States and Britain. Then the Committee took a vote, deciding in favor of the western proposal. Both of the plans were apparently presented mainly for propaganda purposes and the odds are that the world will get no more peace than it had before the choice was made...
This week U.N.'s General Assembly moved to create a couple of new states. By an overwhelming vote (48 to 1, with nine abstentions) the Assembly decided, after weeks of bickering and Soviet-bloc obstruction, that the former Italian colony of Libya (pop. 1,120,000) shall be independent in 1952. A U.N. commissioner and advisory council will govern the country until then...