Word: bipartisanship
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...menaced the peace. In the heat of the Laborite assault on Churchill's foreign policy, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was jolted out of his usual debonair mastery of the House, even lost his temper and apologized for it. Churchill maneuvered desperately to head off an end to the bipartisanship in foreign affairs which has lasted through World War II and six years of Labor government. Abruptly, the news from Sandringham House snuffed out the whole debate. One Laborite muttered: "It's a wonderful get-out for the old scoundrel [Churchill]." The debate will be resumed, but the moment...
...written three books on his hero). In the years before World War II, his nationalism had led him into isolationism. On that day in January, he stood at a crossroads. The speech in which he announced his change of mind transcended party politics, laid the groundwork for bipartisanship in foreign policy ("unpartisanship" he preferred to call it), and lifted Congressmen up to a new faith. Senator Vandenberg was not the single author of bipartisanship, but he was its acknowledged leader. As such, and as the man who knew precisely what measures would get Senate approval...
...March 1950 he made his last senatorial gesture-a long letter addressed to Paul Hoffman, in which he pleaded for an end of Republican sniping at bipartisanship. On July 12, 1950, emaciated, sunken-eyed and doomed by cancer, he made his last appearance in the Senate chamber. He returned to Grand Rapids and his old home on Morris Avenue...
...week began with a minor uproar. Central figure: Texas' Tom Connally snorting at Republican critics of Administration foreign policy. "All this talk about 'bipartisanship' and 'You've got to consult the Republicans'-to hell with all that! It's got to be an American policy." The words of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were still echoing around Capitol Hill when the Korean news...
...obvious answer came in an indignant chorus from Republicans: yes. And it came not only from those whom Acheson was trying to isolate as "isolationists." Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders, a supporter of bipartisanship in foreign affairs, declared: "There is going to be a re-examination of foreign policy by Congress. That is simply one of the facts of life, and the Secretary of State had better take cognizance...