Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wishes to preserve not only its own political party but the two-party system." Matters had hardly gotten to that extreme stage yet. A closer danger was that Republican diehards in the Midwest seize on the defeat of Internationalist John Foster Dulles as one more proof that the bipartisan foreign policy was a political albatross...
...Republican finances had been in a lot worse shape before (notably in 1936, when the deficit after the Landon debacle was more than $1,000,000), and Kemper obviously had more on his mind than economy. It was the bipartisan foreign policy. Kemper had been much under attack as an isolationist (in 1941, as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he opposed lend-lease). His Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. had sponsored Isolationist Upton Close's broadcasts during...
Kemper's current position is that the bipartisan foreign policy is really only bipartisan in support, not "in genesis." Snapped Kemper: "As a result of our so-called bipartisan foreign policy, Republicans have been asked to shower gifts on British Socialism-younger sister of Communism." As G.O.P. Treasurer, Kemper had felt "handicapped" in saying so. He now planned to devote himself, he announced, to electing his kind of Republican Congress...
...would control its own army & navy, although the Dutch would keep the right to use the Surabaya naval base under Indonesian supervision; the U.S.I. would also control its own economy, although it promised not to seize any Dutch property, and to consult the Dutch in making trade agreements with foreign nations...
...second successive year, the U.S. played host while only foreign military teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military horse still has a function and meaning. Mexico's famed Colonel Humberto Mariles, who captains the world's greatest riding team (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948), gallantly announced that "when teams are so equally matched, it is 99% luck." Then he proceeded to show that it was just about 99% skill...