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...treaties in an effort to make domestic law. Vinson's main argument was that Truman derived a power to seize the steel mills from the existence of an international emergency. He buttressed this by recalling that the U.N. covenant and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. In his view, Truman's seizure was justified, in part, by the obligation of the U.S. to keep up its promised deliveries of steel products to its allies...
...enter the Age of Tension, man . . . comes closer in his methods of building to the forces and mechanics of nature than ever before. The oak tree holds its own against the gale only because its roots are strong enough to resist the pull of the wind, and the fibers of its branches restrain the buffeting with their tautness . . . All living things exist in a state of constant tension; only the inanimate and the dead rest in place by weight alone, rock piled on rock and slab leaning against slab. All truly modern building is alive...
Across the aisle, the Democrats' "Mr. Sam" struck the same note as his old friend Joe Martin. Said Ex-Speaker Rayburn: "If we could . . . help prepare those who stand with us so that they could resist, even though it took $5 billion . . . every year for the next ten years, if we could thus prevent a war . . . it would be the greatest investment the people of the United States ever made...
...Korea. For the United Nations, Korea was its first affirmation that the nations of the world will fight together to resist aggression. But did the U.N. really work...
...they change the government." On both sides of the Iron Curtain, the world heard with a thrill of East Berlin's rebellion in the rain. Until Wednesday, the 17th of June, the world had come increasingly to believe that inside a modern mechanized tyranny, it is hopeless to resist. Now hope was possible...