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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such buying, the U.S. Government had become the nation's No. 1 warehouse, currently stuck with more corn, wheat and cotton than that held by aU the private firms in the nation. Among the items laid up in Government storehouses, grain elevators and cold-storage caves...
...Oxford-educated Witness Wadleigh admitted that he had been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated to raise a doubt...
...Stalin-The Theoretician and Leader of the Fight for Peace and Brotherhood among the Peoples...
...plan for Jerusalem had overwhelming support-38 nations for, 14 against, 7 abstentions. It was passed by an odd alliance of forces: the Catholic Latin American countries, which followed the Vatican line, voted with the Communist bloc, which wanted to win friends among the Arab states. The U.S., Britain and Sweden opposed the plan as- unrealistic because U.N. has no way of enforcing it against opposition from Israel and Jordan. The U.S. had favored a Swedish resolution-providing for more limited international supervision of the holy places-which had a clear chance of being accepted by Jerusalem's occupying...
From here on out, the propaganda situation in Europe looks poor. After a fine economic recovery, France is bogging down with strikes and shortages. So is Italy. There is an increasing feeling among ECA men that the only thing which can prop up fading Western European appreciation of the U. S. is more economic aid. Right now, the chances for this increased...