Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Chicago, the General Assembly of States, composed of the governors and top officials of the 48 states, favored the FCDA's program in general, but was highly skeptical of the proposal for bomb shelters. The states, most of them already groaning under inflation problems, felt that the cost of constructing the shelters would be too high. Others predicted that the project would become one vast boondoggle. Governor Frank J. Lausche of Ohio and Nebraska's Governor Val Peterson wanted Congress to give FCDA's plan more thought...
...short life, the FCDA had already come under fire from the American Municipal Association, representing 10,500 nervous U.S. cities and towns. The association wanted to put civil defense into the Defense Department and make it co-equal with the Army, Navy and Air Force. General George Marshall wasn't interested: he considers civil defense a civilian problem...
Federal Judge James P. McGranery rejected the U.S. Attorney General's recommendation, and meted out the heaviest prison sentence possible under the espionage law-30 years. He did it, the judge said, "to deter others in the future," and pointed out that under the law, he might have sentenced Gold to death...
Though a Russian veto had blocked Security Council action (TIME, Dec. 11), no move was made to bring the issue before the General Assembly under the new formula that permits veto-free condemnation of aggressors and recommendations for action against them. Instead, the U.S., Britain, France, Norway, Cuba and Ecuador offered the Assembly a resolution charging Red China with "intervention" in Korea, asking withdrawal of its troops, promising protection for China's border rights. The six powers made no suggestions for U.N. countermeasures...
...carefully observed that while he had not abandoned hope of a settlement, the word "hopeful" was still too strong to describe his feelings. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had advocated a seat for the Chinese Communists in the U.N., also refused to surrender hope. "I cannot believe," he said, "that the hand of friendship, extended in this spirit, would be, for long, rejected by any nation or any people...