Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Himself a Catholic and a key figure in the Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi was so annoyed by the Vatican's attitude that he grumbled aloud that "among other matters subject to revision" was the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the...
At his press conference next day, President Eisenhower confessed that the affair was "puzzling." The treaty by which the canal was first built has twice been modified, he pointed out, each revision granting "a greater degree or level of rights to the Panamanians." What caused this puzzling tension between the...
On inflation's other front, the fight for a balanced U.S. budget for fiscal 1961, disputes were rumbling that only the President could settle. The Pentagon was crying that U.S. defensive strength will suffer if the Administration insists on holding spending to the $41 billion level of the current...
The committee will present its report to the entire Student Council next week. Council approval will be the first step towards getting the hours changed. A formal petition must then be submitted to Perkins, Secretary of the Master's Council, after which the Master's Council, Faculty Committee on Houses...
Federal aid to schools would mean "powerful federal influence" in their curricula, Dr. James B. Conant '14, President, Emeritus, of Harvard, warns in his new book, The Child, the Parent, and the State. He sees little hope, however, for a "radical revision" of the state and federal tax systems, his...