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Elizabeth Bentley testified that White was part of an espionage ring headed by his friend and fellow Government official, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. Documents in White's handwriting were among Whittaker Chambers' "pumpkin papers...
...policy, Elizabeth Bentley testified that White, carrying out Communist Party orders, was the architect of the Morgenthau plan for the postwar emasculation of Germany. White's boss, Henry Morgenthau Jr., carried this plan to the 1944 Quebec Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill. It called for the dismantling of German industry and the creation of a "pastoral" Germany. Witness Bentley said that this plan was espoused by Communist grand strategy to create a power vacuum between Russia and a weakened Western Europe, so that the whole Continent would be subject to the weight of Russian power...
...Chantilly, France's Roger Lagarde beat Britain's Harry Bentley, 2 and 1, for the French Amateur Golf Championship, ending a two-year U.S. monopoly. Veteran Bentley had won the title twice before young (19) Lagarde was born...
When the committee asked him about a charge in a book by former Communist Spy Elizabeth Bentley that Belfrage had been a spy himself in 1943, Belfrage again refused to answer. As soon as Republican Congressman Bernard W. Kearney heard his testimony, he demanded that the Immigration Department, which had already begun looking into Belfrage's record, take steps to deport...
...refused to tell the Jenner subcommittee whether they had ever held a Communist meeting at their homes. Meanwhile. Boston University was debating the case of Professor Maurice Halperin, the former OSS man and Latin American expert who had refused to say whether he had ever known Elizabeth Bentley. In a sense, the fate of these individuals was only a part of a larger problem facing U.S. campuses last week. The big question on U.S. educators' minds: what overall effect are the investigations having on the nation's colleges & universities...