Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...surprise of no one except rumormongers, Republican Clare Boothe Luce, onetime Connecticut Congresswoman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, declared: "Plainly there should be no question of my loyalty to the Republican Party and its distinguished candidates, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge, for whom I have the greatest respect...
...smoke-filled rooms, all the big unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes-and the only question left undecided was the size of Hugh Gaitskell's defeat. Burly Frank Cousins, leftist boss of the giant Transport and General Workers Union, was driving for a million-vote majority for a neutralist policy. Gaitskell, backed by the party's 254 M.P.s was fighting not only...
...public to the Queen as "the madam in England," dredged up a 1944 statement of current Foreign Minister Eric Louw: "As long as we remain in the British Commonwealth, we shall continually be hindered by British liberalism in our efforts to solve the color problem and the Jewish question." In reply, Verwoerd sought to mollify South Africans of English background with a mimeographed letter to a million whites: "The struggle between Eastern and Western nations is such that both groups will grant and concede anything, including the white man of Africa, his possessions and rights, to seek the favor...
What made the question more important than repudiating fealty to the Crown was that any such change requires all other Commonwealth members to decide whether to accept South Africa as a member under the new terms. The opposition was afraid that such black countries as Ghana and Nigeria would veto Commonwealth membership for South Africa and thus end its valuable Commonwealth tar iff preferences. This, cried Opposition Leader Sir de Villiers Graaff, might be "a final mistake that may well lead to the end of the good life that you and I have known in this country." Added Progressive Party...
...audience, he can be expected to follow his own straight line of Brazil-style conservatism. He is committed to continue outgoing President Juscelino Kubitschek's building program, but he intends to hobble inflation. "If inflation could create wealth, there would be no more economic problems." he says. The question is whether he can impose his strong will on Brazil, which has become accustomed to Kubitschek's free-spending, money-printing ways. São Paulo city and São Paulo state were both small enough so that Quadros could exercise the in-person supervision needed to keep...