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Manning Johnson's testimony struck a sharp blow for the Government in its effort to prove Harry Bridges had lied at his naturalization proceedings in 1945, when he denied he was or ever had been a Communist. When Johnson stepped down, the U.S. trotted out ex-Communist No. 6 from its stable of witnesses. Paul Crouch, a tall, black-haired Miami newsman who had spent 17 years in the party, backed up much of what Manning Johnson had said, added that he had heard a party leader in 1938 recommend Bridges for another term on the national committee although...
Critics of the State Department's Latin American policy noted impatiently that its "recognize-and-deplore" formula had given little but cold comfort to democrats in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia. Acheson was aware of the criticism, but he applied the formula again, apparently in an effort to show that it can sometimes get results...
...army in the U.S. takes in some $25 million a year. Of that amount, it spends more than $18 million on the welfare of men, women & children without regard for race, creed and color. With only 42,500 members, the army spends a larger percentage of its money and effort on the welfare of others than any other single denomination. No faith in the world works harder on society's lowest level...
...Major G. Racey Jordan and, as Waldrop said afterward, "That was his young way of summing it up." Waldrop's own way of summing it up for his readers was to reprint verbatim the broadcast of Lewis, who is not celebrated for his accuracy. Waldrop made no effort to determine whether or not the Jordan charges that Hopkins had shipped uranium to Russia (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) were true...
...spite of the outlay, the Information program has not overcome hostility toward the Occupation or the United States. The failure represents no lack of effort or want of size. Quality of personnel and production have weakened the undertaking. Unlike the French, who from the start have spent a large portion of their Occupation budget on the transmission of French culture through intellectuals, the U.S. has been concerned chiefly with justifying its policy, good and bad; preaching much more than practicing democracy; and displaying pictorially many more sky scrapers than symphony orchestras or universities. Incidental things, such as converting...