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...Truman's reason since several employees were dismissed on security grounds, seems far-fetched. At best, dismissing a bureaucrat or two alerts the espionage system to a danger to a few suckers on the tip-ends of its tendrils; dismissing White, with or without explanation, would alert the entire apparatus. The Government does not ordinarily dismiss high officers for no apparent reason, and, had Truman followed such a course, no espionage ring worthy of the name could have failed to realize what was afoot. At the worst, then, the ex-President is free from any charge save laxity with regard...
...must be able to direct his energies into new channels which would be most productive of important geophysical results; he must be highly trained in a rare field of specialization--classical mathematical physics, elasticity and hydrodynamics; he must be able to work with his hands to develop high pressure apparatus which would operate at high temperature, and devise means for electrical measurements of great delicacy which would function under these abnormal conditions...
...show the Communists' "gratitude," Chambers once gave Oriental rugs to White and three other participants in his espionage ring. Some years later, a member of a different spy apparatus, with whom White was working, saw the rug and said: "Why that looks like one of those Soviet rugs." While White shifted nervously, there was an embarrassed silence. The next time the associate visited White, the rug had disappeared...
...more and no less freedom under the Federal Constitution that the cotton pickers. When the commie fronters yell "Academic freedom" what they mean is that no authority public or private should be permitted to fire them because of their open or covert support of any organ of the communist apparatus. This communist support should not be confused with the objective study of communism in action, which is indeed necessary. No communist supporter or sympathizer can be objective in evaluating our culture or political-economic system because his mission is to destroy that, system...
...There is no satisfactory method of sterilizing such apparatus," Chang explained. "Organisms from one piece of meat may be transmitted later," he added. A live steam gun is now being experimented with as a sterilize for grinders and slices...