Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was Bob Taft up to, anyway? The week before, he had said he would probably vote for the full $597 million. Now he voted for a cut. To top things off, he changed his mind once more after the Senate's Thanksgiving Day recess. In a long and bitter speech, he again said he would approve the bill, even though it represented a "wrong and fallacious" approach to solving Europe's problems. The Truman administration, he said, was responsible for having allowed most of these problems to arise in the first place...
...Washington's European embassies, concern ran still deeper. Actually, despite Bob Taft and his fellow insurgents, Europe would probably get most of the emergency help it needed. This week, the Senate finally passed the interim aid bill by an overwhelming 83-to-6 vote...
...This is the day that the Lord hath made!" cried a rabbi in the U.N. delegates' lounge after the vote. "Let us be glad and rejoice therein!" One happy Zionist, Marcus Wulkin, rapturously bussed Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chief U.S. representative on the Jewish Agency for Palestine (see cut). But Arab representatives stalked out of the Assembly chamber, saying they would fight the plan. U.S. Delegate Herschel Johnson, who had steered the partition plan to parliamentary victory, was wary of premature rejoicing. "This thing is just beginning," he said wearily...
Until the very moment of public decision at Flushing Meadow, no one knew whether U.N. would approve partition. A two-thirds vote among nations voting in the full Assembly was needed to win final approval. In the middle of the week, defeat of the partition plan seemed probable. Nations like Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, Greece, which normally follow the U.S. lead, said that they would vote no. Both the U.S. and Russia (together for the first time on a major issue) supported partition. But the very fact of U.S. Russian agreement seemed to free many smaller nations from the necessity...
...Certain Misgivings." The U.S. had carefully refrained from bringing open pressure on other delegations to vote for partition. But as an Arab victory became likely, U.S. officials in Washington, in Manhattan, at Flushing Meadow, began stating the case for partition more firmly...