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Kral, says Moscow-trained Bureaucrat Matejka, is "a typical bourgeois liberal with leanings toward anarchism." Actually, what troubles Matejka is that Kral is not at all typical: he belongs to no party, spouts no doctrine, and (something that also troubles the U.S. consulate) includes men of all beliefs among his friends. The hero of Missing never appears in its pages. But, like an invisible magnet, Paul Kral draws its characters into his orbit, strengthening their humanity by his example of personal goodness...
...some day to be a commissioner and if the fates were kind . . . chairman." Last week the fates, in the form of Harry Truman, were kind. The President named Cook SEC Chairman to succeed Harry A. McDonald, who took over as RFC boss. Cook is a tough-talking, fast-moving bureaucrat with a sharp legal and financial mind and the desire to "get up some of the old fizz and vinegar that...
White House reporters promptly protested. They feared that bureaucrats would use the "classified" stamp to hide boners, bottle up many an important (though militarily harmless) story that should be told. What, asked one newsman, would happen if a bureaucrat refused to release information which obviously had no connection with the nation's safety? Replied Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short: "I dont want to stick my neck out-but, come to me." But with 1,500 reporters in Washington, that was hardly a solution...
Secret Deal.'For some time, the Mufti's representatives had been engaged in secret negotiations with U.N. Relief Boss John Blandford, a former high-bracket Washington bureaucrat. The Mufti agreed to Blandford's proposal that the refugees be moved into Syria and resettled there. The Communists got wind of this and passed the word along to the refugees, charging that the Mufti was selling them out. A fortnight ago, despite protests from Mufti agents, they called a demonstration at Ein El Helwi camp on the Israeli border...
...precepts of life in official Washington, Congress should have reacted to a bureaucrat named Hervé L'Heureux like a fat man trying to get a burr out of his shirt. Not only does his name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag...