Word: formalism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Next day, Mr. Truman put his call to action in a formal emergency proclamation: "I summon all citizens ... I summon our farmers, our workers . . . and our businessmen ... I summon every person of every community to make, with a spirit of neighborliness, whatever sacrifices are necessary for the welfare of the nation...
More Rigors, More Vigor. Even without the formal proclamation, the President had most of the powers necessary for severe mobilization. Some had been given to him by Congress since Korea, others had been put on the books before or during World War II and remained in effect because the state of war with Germany and Japan has never been ended. The proclamation was intended to be a rallying cry at home and a notice to the rest of the world that the U.S. would once more rise to its calling as democracy's arsenal...
...more than 700 civilians had already fallen before the guns of the R.O.K. troops. Others said the total was at least 800. Last week in Seoul, while U.S. and British troops voiced their loathing of the wholesale slaughter, three American clergymen-a Methodist and two Roman Catholics-made a formal protest...
Just when most Republican critics had muted their demands for Dean Acheson's head, the silence was broken by a new clamor. New York's middle-of-the-road, internationalist Republican Senator Irving Ives was for getting his colleagues together in a formal demand that the Secretary of State be sacked...
...mood of Congress revealed itself not so much in formal speeches as in the cloakrooms, corridors and restaurants. The voices of the most influential legislators of both parties sounded these estimates and doubts...