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...smoke and skirmishing of the Army-McCarthy hassle last year, burly, bellicose H. (for Herman) Struve Hensel was one of the angriest men on the Pentagon side. Joe McCarthy correctly accused Hensel of "masterminding" the Army's case against McCarthy, falsely charged him with milking the Navy of $56,526.64 from ship-supply contracts during World War II. After the Senate Investigations Subcommittee dismissed the charges against Hensel, McCarthy obliquely admitted that they were false...
Double Negative. Of all the calamitous recent British moves, Eisenhower, at the moment of Churchill's arrival, was angriest over Britain's opposition...
...brushed the hints aside. When the blow fell last week he had just returned from a meeting of opposition leaders in Mexico at which plans for an uprising were reportedly discussed. Prío, whose democratic but graft-ridden government collapsed in a few hours in March 1952, seemed angriest that his arrest would give "comfort and satisfaction to a dictator." If brought to trial and convicted, he could be fined $10,000 or jailed for five years, or both...
Thick Dossiers. Of several hundred Communist kidnapings in West Berlin, this was the most flagrant, and it raised the angriest protests. Dr. Linse had been a painful thorn in the Red flank. The Investigating Committee of Free Jurists (TIME, Dec. 18, 1950) compiles thick dossiers on the crimes of East German officials, on information obtained from refugees and from well-concealed underground sources in the Soviet zone. Three weeks ago Linse gave the West German newspapers his latest data on East zone rearmament. The secret Communist price on Linse's head was believed to be comparable to that...
...saved his angriest words to rawhide the House of Representatives for cutting $4.7 billion out of the $51 billion defense appropriation for 1953 (TIME, April 21). It was a shrewdly timed outburst, designed to show Harry Truman, though he himself had sharply slashed the armed forces' budget, as the fearless champion of adequate defense...