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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puzzling Answer. Deliberately, Acheson read off each question & answer in the Smith-Stalin exchange. Would Stalin "be prepared to consider the issuance of a joint declaration" asserting that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. had no intention of resorting to war? Stalin's answer was yes. "Now, I confess that I find this answer puzzling," said Acheson, since both nations were already pledged in the U.N. charter to refrain from "the threat or use of force...
Would the U.S.S.R. join with the U.S. in measures to implement this pact, "such as gradual disarmament?" Stalin's answer was "Naturally." Acheson pointed out that the U.S. demobilization had been "not gradual but . . . precipitant." With other U.N. nations, he said, the U.S. had supported attempts to settle disputes peacefully, to establish an international police force and international control of the atomic bomb. Their efforts were blocked by Soviet vetoes and intransigence...
...lawyers to draw?" Tobin, who had actually directed the drawing of the bill, still tried to duck. Taft kept after him until, cornered, Tobin said: "We did not draft a bill that had to do with emergency disputes ... I am not an attorney and did not know what the answer would...
...Didn't. The answer was clear enough to Lawyer Taft. He snapped: "I disagree with the Attorney General. I don't know of any inherent right of the President to get injunctions in a national emergency. If you want to do that you ought to say so in so many words ... in clear law." Oregon's waspish Lawyer Wayne Morse, a Republican friend of labor, agreed with Taft...
Secretary Tobin ventured: "Congress cannot circumscribe the constitutional powers of the President. Does that answer your question?" Said Morse: "I don't think it even comes near...