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...corridor"). To each man Crommelin handed over a confidential letter to Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews from Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, commander of the Pacific's First Task Fleet. Crommelin insisted only that his own identity be kept secret for the moment: he wanted nothing to detract from the impact of the letter itself...
...complete text of the decision was written in a letter signed by Archbishop Marchetti-Salvagianni and sent to Archbishop Cushing. Excerpts from it appeared in the "Pilot." According to the United Press Father Feeney denounced the excerpts as having been edited so as to detract from his side of the argument and build up the Archbishop's position. He was reported by the UP to have refused to go to the Chancery to read the full text of the letter and to have denied admittance to the priest the Archbishop sent to St. Benedict's to transmit the letter...
Schlesinger's statement was echoed by Brinton yesterday. "Our aim is not to detract attention from the conference, but rather to dramatize the fact that on the whole we believe it to be an unwise thing and a Soviet inspired setup," he said...
...inconsequence of his journey does not in the least detract from the impression (rather reluctantly given) that he is, after all, the embodiment of some old English virtues: heroic without knowing that he is, eloquently monosyllabic, honest, scrupulous, sane, reserved, decent. He deserves more room than he gets...
...quite true, said Acheson, that Alger Hiss "became, and he remains, my friend. I do not detract from that when I state that Alger Hiss was not my assistant." It was Donald Hiss, not Alger, who had been his assistant. Said Acheson: "This whole matter of confusion of two men has arisen out of the testimony of my former colleague, Mr. Adolf Berle [TIME, Jan. 17] ... Mr. Berle's memory has gone badly astray...