Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in October in New York's stolid old Foley Square Courthouse, the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security began an investigation of U.S. subversives in the United Nations Secretariat. Senator O'Connor, a Maryland Democrat, the Committee's acting chairman, said the probe would be "solely to safeguard the internal security of the United States." The Committee, he promised, would steer clear of any interference in U.N. affairs...
This assurance, however, was little more than paper thin. In ensuing months, the Committee's loyalty check rapidly turned by innuendo into an attack on the Secretariat itself. When secretary-general Trygve Lie ordered employees to be silent on official U.N. business, O'Connor claimed this obstructed the Committee. He threatened any witness who followed Lie's order with punishment for contempt, and labeled the Secretariat a home of subversive activities in the United States...
...after a total of 22 months investigation, neither the Committee nor a Federal Grand Jury had found anything solid to add to O'Connor's original charge. In a year and a half of secret sessions the Grand Jury had named by indictment not one of the alleged subversives. Five months of Committee hearings had scattered suspicions and innuendoes, but no accusations...
Earlier, Leverett's Bucky O'Connor '53 led his team to a 38 to 30 win over Dunster, scoring 13 points himself. The Kirkland five, paced by the 12 points of John Green '55, thrashed Adams 44 to 25 in an a League contest...
What picture of the U.S. do Britons get from the British press? Last week, splashed across a tabloid page of the Laborite London Daily Mirror, world's largest daily (circ. 4,514,000), was a headline: THE CLIMATE OF FEAR. Below was an article by Mirror Reporter William Connor, just returned from the U.S. A congressional investigation, wrote Connor in a fantastic comparison, "reminds you of the Communist trials, the horrible . . . Slansky affair in Prague, the grisly Mindszenty farce and a dozen other dismal puppet shows on the other side of the Iron Curtain...