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...lost. But the margin was nothing like the million votes the neutralists had counted on; Cousins' anti-NATO resolution scraped through by 43,000 votes. Gaitskell carried 75% of the constituency-party votes, and next day he had the satisfaction of seeing the conference, by a lopsided vote, uphold his objection to further nationalization of industry as the primary doctrinaire goal of the Labor Party...
...defending Coast Guard will probably pose the most trouble to the Crimson in the Danmark series. Sailing at their home wharf, the cadets will undoubtedly uphold their reputation and level some big guns at the visiting fleets...
...Washington, President Eisenhower huddled with his State Department advisers and reworked his speech. U.S. diplomats sensed that Russia had made a fundamental error by taking on the U.N. itself. With that as a theme, the U.S. built its position: while the Communists were repudiating the U.N., the U.S. would uphold and strengthen it. This was likely to win support from the new African nations, for whom the only protected road to real independence, and the most important amphitheater for their own thoughts, is the U.N. itself...
...Democratic Party has once again placed its confidence in the American people, and in their ability to render a free and fair judgment," said he. "And you have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment, to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office, to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the presidency in the national interest...
...congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President did not need majorities in Congress; all he needed was one-third of the votes plus one vote, in either the Senate or the House, to uphold his vetoes...