Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...security risk?" "Yes, I should think probably so," Acheson responded. Then Bridges pounced: "Would you consider a friend of a person, convicted, say, of perjury in connection with a treasonable act and found guilty, a security risk?" Acheson flushed: the shoe fitted nobody present but himself, and no Democrat lifted a finger to help him out of it. His eyes bulged coldly. "I think that's a matter you would look into," he said...
...Bonn, the Social Democrat Bundestag members read a resolution calling the Neumünster verdict "a new, heavy blow and disgrace to the German people." In Kiel, the trade unions stopped work for 90 minutes in protest. The Christian Democrat press service warned: "The Weimar Republic collapsed because of [similar] tolerance toward its known enemies." U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy had a stinging comment: "I doubt, that [Hedler] can or will ever be acquitted morally by public opinion...
...everyone agreed with Lodge's reading of the future. Ohio's Robert Taft feared that Republicans stood to lose more in the North than they could gain in the South. To that, Lodge & Co. had a telling answer. Figuring the 1948 election on the Lodge formula, Democrat Harry Truman would still have won with a total of 258 electoral votes, but Republican Tom Dewey would have picked up an extra 32 electoral votes...
...Court." Illinois' Les Arends, the Republican whip, declared that Acheson's continued presence in the Cabinet was "an affront to the nation." California's Republican Senator William Knowland said he would move to withhold all State Department appropriations. Said Georgia's James C. Davis, a Democrat: "How long can Americans be expected to show respect for Acheson when he hugs to his bosom; those who have betrayed their country...
...fifth cabinet reshuffle since he became Premier in 1945, Christian Democrat Premier Alcide de Gasperi last week held on.to the wavering Saragat Socialists, dropped the waning Liberal Party. His "two fists" were still present in the new cabinet: tough Interior Minister Mario Scelba, who fights Communists, and tight-fisted Budget and Treasury Minister Giuseppe Pella, who fights inflation. The departure of the Liberal Party, which is conservative, may mean that De Gasperi can push ahead with land reform. The Premier explained that the reshuffle was not caused by a real crisis, but merely by a "crisetta," a useful word...