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...reports on Communist activity which included White's name that were delivered to the White House in Nov. and Dec. 1945. When the FBI heard White's name had been sent to the Senate for confirmation as US Director of the International Monetary Fund, a 28-page dossier of secret information "whose reliability has been established either by inquiry or long-established observation and evaluation," was delivered to Gen. Harry Vaughan on Feb. 4, 1946. The following observation was made in that report: "As will be observed, information has come to the attention of this Bureau charging White as being...
Truman said he received an FBI report on White on Feb. 6, 1946, after the Senate had confirmed his new appointment. On receiving the dossier, he reportedly conferred with State Secretary James Byrnes and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson. Vinson then went into a huddle with Hoover and Attorney General Tom Clark. All three agreed White was "unfit for service...
...already created in the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission, by which Stalin organized himself into power after Lenin's death, and which later became a department of personnel in the Kremlin. Only such an apparatus could have arrested and destroyed former police chief Yagoda. From being dossier clerk to Yezhov, the young Malenkov is said to have graduated to secretarial head of this tidy personnel department. He may well have inherited the apparatus after Stalin's death...
Richard Wagner rates the fattest dossier in Slonimsky's book-27 pages. He was called, among other things, a Communist (in 1855), a madman and a eunuch. Slonimsky himself believes that, for pure vehemence, criticism of Wagner has seldom surpassed that of the German historian, J. L. Klein, who wrote in 1871 of "the diabolical din of this pigheaded man, stuffed with brass and sawdust, inflated, in an insanely destructive self-aggrandizement, by Mephistopheles' mephitic and most venomous hellish miasma, into Beelzebub's Court Composer and General Director of Hell's Music-Wagner...
...whole idea of the classe nouvelle, each limited to 30 students, is to tailor education to the abilities of the individual. Teachers supervise every child, hold private talks with him, then with his parents. For the first time, a full psychological dossier, carefully noting his outstanding talents and troubles, is kept on each pupil...