Word: locales
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Many Cooks . . . Outside Uline Arena, there was considerably less enthusiasm over the widely heralded "restatement of Republican Party principles" which the rally was intended to launch. Demanded by Gabrielson and reluctantly hammered together by a group of Congressmen-who would rather have run on their own records and on local issues-the statement was just what might have been expected of the product of so many hands. It was guarded where it should have been outspoken; diffuse where it might have been concise. It sounded no clarion...
...basic domestic issue (defined by Taft) is "liberty against socialism"-"whether we shall delegate to an all powerful federal Government, with unlimited power to tax and spend, the rights to direct and operate our agriculture, industry, labor and local communities and the daily lives of our citizens...
...skilled politician with a sensitive ear for wails of states' rights, local autonomy and professional independence, Oscar Ewing had tried to soothe some possible opponents in advance. He urged a decentralized administration, with the Federal Government doing nothing but collecting the compulsory health insurance funds and doling them out to the states. Every state, said he, should have its own authority; each community area (probably a county) should have its own plan, run largely by volunteer committees with one paid executive...
Ewing insists, especially since his recent visit to Britain, that his plan is not "socialized medicine." He reserves that term for systems like the British, in which hospitals have been nationalized. His plan would leave them as at present under private or local control. Also, he maintains, "socialized medicine" covers the systems, common in continental Europe, where doctors are employed by the state...
Austria, the new threat to Southeast Asia as "local conflicts" with Russia, which should not provoke "a general policy of indignation." The usually vigorous anti-Communist Paris-Presse followed the line of Le Monde, asking if "prudence did not suggest playing both the card of military security with the U.S. and the card of neutrality (hypothetical) in the case of a conflict...