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...consul general in Vladivostok. He was consul general in Peking when the Communists took over in 1950, was ejected when they seized the consulate over official U.S. protests. The charges against him apparently come from old hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee, in which ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that he had once seen Clubb calling at the Communist New Masses office. Clubb vaguely remembers being there in 1932 and taking a letter of introduction from Agnes Smedley to Robert Morss Lovett...
Drink & Women. Back in Germany, Wollweber became boss of the Comintern's maritime division and organizer of the worldwide courier system on which the Comintern depended for its life. As a respectable front-and a means of getting immunity from arrest-he got himself elected to various parliamentary bodies, where he won a reputation as a dull orator and, socially, a bore who told long stories of his exploits with drink and women...
Harry Truman sat on the weather deck of the U.S.S. Williamsburg and bared his white chest to the sun. It was his first trip away from Washington since last March, but it was not complete escape. Each morning, courier seaplanes skimmed into the water alongside the presidential, yacht in Chesapeake Bay and delivered locked leather pouches from the White House...
...Crow" military units, he had not created them: "They were created in Washington and sent to me ... I did not ask for men by race, I asked ... for 'men.' " Then MacArthur fixed Roberts with a stern stare, and gave him his lead for his two-part Courier series this week. Said the general: "I have one criticism of Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean war. They didn't send me enough of them...
Last week a visiting Negro newspaperman named Stanley Roberts put their lack of reportorial enterprise to shame. Roberts, 36, Washington bureau chief of the Pittsburgh Courier, got the first published interview with MacArthur since his return to the U.S. It was not the first time Cincinnati-born Roberts has scored a newsbeat. He got the first exclusive interview with Dr. Ralph Bunche when the United Nations mediator returned from Israel, was the first to uncover the court-martial death sentence of Negro Lieut. Leon Gilbert in Korea (TIME...