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...Saigon the Communists came close to forcing a showdown which would reveal, one way or the other, whether the U.S. was deadly serious in its intention to resist the spread of Communism. The test would not be the relatively easy one of whether the U.S. was willing to spend money, nor whether the U.S. was willing to wage all-out atomic war. It would be the narrower, harder test of whether the U.S. was willing to engage in limited military action for limited objectives, each one of less than worldwide importance, but each one of which might be, if unresisted...
Watered Down. His anxiety was well founded. When the groggy debaters were shut off at 2:30 a.m., the Southerners began the final phase of their strategy: to soften the McConnell substitute bill even further with weakening amendments and then to vote for it. In the final showdown at the end of 15 hours they triumphed; the next morning the House perfunctorily approved the McConnell bill, 240 to 177. FEPC had been deprived of its teeth; if the bill became law (it seemed more probable that it would die in the Senate), it could be enforced only by mediation, conciliation...
...Duff's own candidate for governor, Superior Court Judge John S. Fine of Nanticoke. "This is the time for decision," Duff told them. "If the Republicans of Pennsylvania don't want to go ahead, then I'm not the guy to represent them." When the showdown came, Duff had won the endorsement for Senator by acclamation and Judge Fine had been picked for governor by a thumping majority...
...Organization of American States and its predecessor, the Pan American Union, had tried one stopgap measure after another to calm the situation. Last week the O.A.S. stopped stalling. In one brisk, four-hour session, its council: 1) invoked the Rio treaty of inter-American defense, 2) ordered a showdown investigation of the whole Caribbean mess, and 3) prepared to call a meeting of all 21 American foreign ministers, if necessary...
...privately boasted: "I'll keep asking what our policy on China is until I find out." Yet, when the time for battle came, Louis Johnson was away: he had been traced to the swank Jupiter Island Club at Hobe Sound, Fla. the day before the long-awaited showdown of the armed services with Secretary of State Acheson...