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...Beyond Belief." McCarthy quickly answered: "I hope to remain in the Senate and see many Presidents and Attorney Generals come and go.* [Government employees are] in duty bound to give me information even though some bureaucrat may have stamped it secret...
...seemed that ambivalence was Georges Bidault's chief stock in trade. The quality is essential to political survival in France, helpful to a diplomat, but frequently maddening to those who must do business with him. Bidault speaks in images and parables, abhors the straight yes or no. A bureaucrat asks if he will accept a luncheon invitation. "If only I am hungry by then . . ." murmurs Bidault obliquely. The bureaucrat backs away, unsure whether the date is set or not. Bidault is apt to speak similarly of bigger issues-EDC, the Saar, Indo-China. Commented one American in Paris...
...Inside Struggle, it becomes plain that Honest Harold was anything but a happy bureaucrat from the end of 1936 to the end of 1939. His devotion to President Roosevelt did not pay off in the new powers Ickes craved, and the New Deal itself, he thought, was being scuttled by renegade Democrats who had ridden into office on F.D.R.'s coattails. Roosevelt himself seemed to have turned his back on the New Dealers. By the spring of 1939, Secretary of the Interior Ickes was "tired of being doublecrossed and pushed around" by F.D.R., so "sore and bruised of spirit...
...Russia. When he added his plea to that of MacLean's, the Communists no longer denied him. Donald wrote Melinda, and soon the MacLean family was on its way to the ten-room villa they now occupy as the wife and children of a top-ranking Red bureaucrat...
...boss of Soviet agriculture, Khrushchev is the man most to blame for the human misery and potential strategic weakness that his figures indicate. But though Communism has killed tens of thousands for failings one-tenth as great, this tough, blue-eyed bureaucrat has not only survived but has got himself appointed boss of the Kremlin's recovery plan. He has undertaken to revolutionize Soviet agriculture (for the umpteenth time) by 1956, to more than double its gross output. He promises to raise the supply of meat (230%), butter (190%), cheese (220%), sugar (230%). His record makes it plain that...