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...mother of Major Baumer accused Washington of "dillydallying" but she was comforted when the White House called, assuring her that everything "humanly possible within peaceful means" was being done to get the Americans released. Said the State Department: "A most flagrant violation of justice." The British government was shocked out of its usual line of "Let's not be beastly to the Chinese Reds"; the Foreign Office called the imprisonment of the 13 Americans "outrageous" and promised to "do all in our power to mitigate this great, grievous wrong." Senator William F. Knowland called for "a tight naval blockade...
Probably McCarthy's most flagrant abuse was his practice of holding one-man hearings, sitting himself almost as a judge and jury. As Dean Griswold said in his address to the Massachusetts Bar Association last winter, "There is nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the House of Representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees...
...seems incomprehensible that TIME, Oct. 25 could refer to Daniel Malan as "the most hated man in [South] Africa, etc." I refute this flagrant untruth. He has . . . been elected to power repeatedly. After all, the people could have chosen an arrogant Englishman, but they didn...
...wife of Assistant Naval Attaché Houston Stiff, were out on a quiet, picture-taking stroll when they were pulled into a building by two Soviet secret agents and detained for more than an hour. The Soviet version of the incident, said U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen, "is in such flagrant contradiction of the facts that I am sure the Soviet Foreign Ministry will wish to change it." Even after a personal call from Bohlen, however, Foreign Minister Molotov showed no such disposition. Molotov in fact seemed eager to exploit the matter, in marked contrast to a recent hushed...
...Government last week accused Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl of personal prejudice in favor of Owen Lattimore, and asked the jurist to disqualify himself from the bench during Lattimore's forthcoming trial on charges of perjury. In the past such action has come only after evidences of exceptionally flagrant abuse, yet the Government's case against Youngdalh is a flimsy one. Of Youngdahl has a bias, it apparently did not affect his judgment, for in dismissing these charges he was upheld by an overwhelming 8 to 1 majority in the Court of Appeals. The two counts this court reinstated were...