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...Division for the accuracy of the material which it did issue. When it released records of the Yalta conference in the spring, many people, including Sir Winston Churchill, asserted that serious mistakes had been made. And less than a month ago a dismissed member of the Division, Donald M. Dozer, publicly stated that efforts were being made to "pretty up the record of U.S. diplomacy during the Second World...
...Dozer was fired, he says, mainly for objecting to the "distortion of the Yalta record, the delays in proceeding with the records of the Cairo-Tehran and other World War II conference, and the failure of the Division to meet any of the deadlines set for publication of other World War II papers...
...many unavoidable delays. In May, 1953, a Republican controlled Congress gave it a large appropriation for this purpose. That the politicians did this to prove as quickly as possible that the Democrats had blundered, however, is doubtful. It was a high State Department official--an Eisenhower appointment--who investigated Dozer's charges and found that none of them could be substantiated. He decided to dismiss Dozer, not the Democratic holdovers in the Division itself. The criticisms of the Division, he said, were based "entirely on emotions and very little on fact...
...last a bulldozer appeared, rescuers ran cables to the cab, and the dozer dragged it clear of the flames. In a Martinez hospital last week, Billy Cox grinned weakly and without his usual cockiness. Said Billy: "I lay there and all I could think was, 'What...
...Bull dozer's and teams of men worked away through the hot summer months molding mountain shoulders with an eye for the first snow. Steel beains and steel towers were erected, wire cord was hung to feed more trials, wider than ever, with a network of town for the benefit of parallel enthusiasts...