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...loyalty case can have a happy ending, William W. Remington's seemed to have had one. Two years ago, Remington, a boyish-looking Department of Commerce economist, was accused by ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley of passing wartime secrets to her espionage ring. He was promptly suspended from his $10,330-a-year job. Then the top U.S. loyalty review board studied his case, sent him back to work with $5,000 back pay and a clean bill of health-although his duties had been juggled so that he was burdened with few security decisions. When ex-Spy Bentley...
Remington was cleared of charges of Communism in 1949 by the top Loyalty Review Board. The Board's check-up came after Miss Elizabeth T. Bentley, a confessed former courier for an espionage apparatus, charged that in 1943-1944 Remington supplied her with War Production Board secrets...
...Yale Class of 1885. With so much copy coming in, there is not much time (or inclination) for cutting it or making it more readable. "The Times," cracked one old hand, "is probably the best unedited paper in the world." Washington Correspondent John Day of the Louisville Courier-Journal aptly summed up this feeling of reluctant admiration recently. "There are mornings," he told Publisher Sulzberger, "when I grab hold of a copy of the Times and say to it: 'Damn you, I'm going to read you if it kills...
Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria. Scelba was convinced that French and Italian Communists were under orders to launch a spring offensive. One day last week he warned his fellow ministers: "We are in an emergency." He asked and received extraordinary power to keep public order, including reinforcements for the police and a ban on all public and factory meetings...
...Price of Union" is a book about practices rather than ideals, accomplishments rather than programs. In his systematic review of American history from the background of the Revolution to the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, historian-journalist Agar (Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal) is always on the history he records-for the opposing pressures and influences from which the events arose...