Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft had angrily tried to withdraw his name from New Jersey last month after Ike's big victory in Minnesota, charging that New Jersey's pro-Eisenhower Governor Alfred Driscoll had betrayed him by coming out for Eisenhower. But Taft's name stayed on the ballot, and although Taft himself kept out of the state, and Taft men assiduously cultivated the underdog role, his lieutenants worked harder than ever to push his campaign. "As a matter of fact, they never stopped working," complained Driscoll last week. "The Senator's campaign is on a very practical basis...
...looks like a distinguished European actor impersonating an Arab, yielded to French demands. He went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles on the nationalists, "men whose secret intentions were surely evil." Then he turned over Tunisia's Foreign Ministry to Resident De Hautecloque, agreed to withdraw Tunisian complaints from the U.N., and appointed a fat and wealthy pro-French Prime Minister, Salah Eddine Ben Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears the cross of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor. It was a surprising victory for De Hautecloque. In Tunis, which is normally noisy at night...
...atmosphere in which there cannot be a fair contest . . . This action by the governor and other Republican leaders of the state directly repudiates the position taken by the governor in recent weeks . . . Up to the very last opportunity on my part to withdraw or take any other action, the governor maintained his show of neutrality . . . Let the public judge whether or not this is in the interest of fair play or political treachery...
...native caution to the winds. He came to the meeting armed with a resolution demanding that the rebel Bevanites come to heel, without reservation. They must support, among other things, rearmament. Bevan himself, in a speech in his own constituency of Ebbw Vale, had all but threatened to withdraw from the party if such a resolution were pressed...
...words than by tanks and armies. Between the two evils, he would choose the man who would advise less spending for defense and whose presence in the White House might divide intead of unite countries of the West. Stalin's choice would be the candidate who would tend to withdraw from the burdens of a vigorous foreign policy, provided that one of the candidates would be that kind of president. It is almost tragically paradoxical that Stalin's moves on the international chessboard can make Americans vote the way he desires, even though his choice would inevitably be the worse...