Word: clubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark W. Cannon, treasurer of the Graduate Student Council; William W. Abbott, Business School; Richard Rosenthal, Design School; J. Frank Schulman, Divinity School; Norman R. Dixon, School of Education; Andrew L. Kaufman, president of the Law Review; Lawrence C. Thum and Thomas F. O'Brien, Medical School; Robert W. Clubb, Dental School; Dalmas Nelson, School of Public Administration; and Dr. Trawisk H. Stubbs and Young B. Moon, School of Public Health...
...those who are seeking to solve the Far East problem by assigning blame for it. Their technique is to serve up a murky stew of half-truth and hindsight, then immerse a handful of Asia experts in it. Owen Lattimore is already up to his neck, and Service, Vincent, Clubb, etcetera have at least had their feet burned. What this will accomplish to relieve tension in the Far East is incomprehensible to us, but perhaps we are the innocents...
...word from Secretary of State Dean Acheson would have corrected this assumption, but the Secretary kept mum. His enemies, notably Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, charged that Clubb had been cleared through Acheson's personal intervention. Last week Acheson felt compelled to tell the story of just what happened...
State's Loyalty and Security Board had, in fact, found Clubb a security risk (his loyalty was not questioned). This judgment was appealed to Acheson, who turned the matter over to an "experienced and trusted" aide. Though the Clubb case involved the highest ranking Foreign Service officer yet to come under inquiry, Acheson said: "I read [my aide's opinion] very carefully. I did not study the record because ... I do not have time to do that." On the basis of his aide's* recommendation, the Secretary overruled his board...
...more fuel for the fires of congressional investigators and a probe of the Clubb case seemed likely. It was also another illustration of Acheson's inability or unwillingness to 1) believe that the question of internal security seriously concerns his department; 2) understand that the U.S. people are concerned about security in the Foreign Service, and expect him to tell them what steps he is taking to protect...