Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Secretary, Adolf A. Berle Jr., but Acheson at the time was right in step with top State Department bigwigs, with Jimmy Byrnes, Harry Truman and a great many other Americans. One of Acheson's advisers was the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, Alger Hiss (brother Donald once was Acheson's executive assistant in the State Department*). When Whittaker Chambers went to Berle and linked Alger Hiss with a Washington Communist group, Berle took the report to Acheson. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee last summer, Berle testified...
...resignation and a peace bid to the Communists. How could Chiang Kai-shek hold out when his Northwest commander, Chang Chih-chung, had counseled another effort to negotiate? When the commander of the armies defending Nanking, sturdy Pai Chung-hsi, had wired him to step aside? Even his sworn brother, ex-Premier Chang Chun, had urged him to "retire into the clouds" and let others less disagreeable to the enemy make overtures for peace. Vice President Li Tsung-jen was ready to propose a cease-fire and immediate peace talks...
Strike in the Dark. Niebuhr, says Barth, reminds him of a player in "a curious game called 'Brother, where art thou?' . . . who with eyes blindfolded [strikes] out wildly into the dark in a direction in which the other . . . is in all probability not to be found . . . Niebuhr's contribution is in my view a shattering example of a blow in the dark, such as I have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows...
...Evil (Enterprise; MGM) takes a long, unfavorable look at the numbers racket. Notoriously unprofitable for suckers, the racket also turns out to be unrewarding dramatically. A tough young shyster (John Garfield) gets himself neck-deep in crooked shenanigans. When he tries to repay his older and more honest brother (Thomas Gomez) for past favors, he only succeeds in getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very bad end, and his chief...
...unexplained postponement of the trial for the murder of George Polk by the Greek government forced his brother, William R. Polk '51, to shelve temporarily plans for his late December flight to Greece...