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...Dwyer refused to return to New York to answer grand-jury questions about his administration. There were also romantic rumors linking Sloan, some 25 years her husband's junior, to Millionaire Socialite Fred Weicker of the Squibb drug family. The week after O'Dwyer resigned his ambassadorship, Sloan moved out to live with a friend. Last week the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico approved the temporary separation "while a careful study is being made in regard to definitive canonical separation...
Your editorial of January 19 brings up the point that the argument over the ambassadorship to the Vatican has not blown itself out but is just waiting for another appointment by President Truman to replace General Mark Clark to resume its force...
When General Mark Clark announced that he was no longer in the field for an ambassadorship to the Vatican, much of the wind that followed Truman's original statement on the question of representation at the Holy See blew itself out. Although the issue is still sufficient to produce a few decibals from Texas, it has faded from the halls of Congress, from the newspapers, and even from many Protestant pulpits. Now that the furor has subsided, it is possible to detect a few sane arguments here and there...
Last week Protestant protests continued to rise across the land. Letters and telegrams to the White House last week were running 6 to 1 against the nomination. One Protestant leader revealed that Truman had offered him the ambassadorship last January. "I declined and advised against it," said Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of Senator Robert A. Taft and a board member of the National Council of Churches...
...took the oath, and flatly denied that Crane had ever given him any money, let alone $10,000 in a red manila envelope. Despite his denial, his reputation had been badly smudged. Washington hummed with rumors that he would presently be "nudged" into doing the gentlemanly thing-resigning his ambassadorship as gracefully as possible...