Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...played down his differences with Army Secretary Stevens and Army Counselor John Adams, whom he had once tarred as blackmailers. Stevens, said Joe, is "a very honest individual [who] got mousetrapped in the very rough politics played down here." Of Adams he said tolerantly, at one point: "I wouldn't want to accuse him of perjury . . . John is badly mistaken." Even the McCarthy charge that Stevens and Adams had sought to sidetrack the McCarthy committee investigations of the Army by offering "dirt" on the Air Force and Navy was airily dismissed...
...Reason: both the "good guys" and the "bad guys" were Republicans. Secretary Stevens, as the Administration's chief warrior, won sympathy as an earnest, long-suffering gentleman, but lost respect, perhaps irrevocably, when he told to what lengths he had gone to accommodate McCarthy, Cohn and Schine. Counselor Adams, the genial fixer, emerged as a sly fighter, but one whom Roy Cohn thought he could outwit-and nearly...
...Army try to stop McCarthy's investigation of security risks at Fort Monmouth? Clearly, it did; both Stevens and Army Counselor John Adams admitted that they were anxious to get that "type" of hearing called off, because McCarthy's investigations and extravagant charges were demoralizing the Army...
Wrapping the. tattered cloak of experience about them, the British stepped forward in the role of the honest broker and wise counselor. Question was: Can a man be an honest broker to a bad bargain? The broker's solution for the rot infecting Indo-China was partition of the country. That solution the British hoped to get at Geneva. Until they got it, or it proved impossible to get, they refused to discuss the future. "Our immediate task is to do everything we can to reach an agreed settlement at Geneva for the restoration of peace in Indo-China...
Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky, 60, in the words of one of his friends, "can be called the high priest of militant U.S. anti-Communism." Last week the high priest became a key figure in the McCarthy v. the Army battle. The Army's Counselor John Adams testified that Columnist Sokolsky acted as a go-between who tried to make peace between McCarthy and the Army, and the terms were pretty much McCarthy's terms. Sokolsky, said Adams, proposed to him that if the Army gave Private G. David Schine some of the special treatment McCarthy and Roy Cohn...