Word: givings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well want to reach outside the Pentagon to fill the top job. Top prospects: AEC Chairman John McCone, onetime Air Force Under Secretary; Presidential Assistant (for National Security) Gordon Gray, onetime Army Secretary; retired General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, who might be loath to give up the prestige, house, $30,000 salary and perquisites that go with his job of president of the American Red Cross; Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, who would be difficult to replace...
...private oil-producing firms out of Italy, and while neglecting oil exploration in the promising Po Valley, he has scattered his capital around the Middle East, acquiring concessions in Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Somaliland, with little to show for it. He benefits from laws left over from fascism, which give his state organizations monopolistic power...
...summons to arms comes from the self-styled Tibetan Brigade, a force being organized at the University of California in Berkley. Now in the process of raising men and money for the mission, the Brigade hopes to enter Tibet this summer and give military, moral, and material aid to the anti-Communist native forces...
...finances for the trip to, and possibly from, Tibet, Duke says that the Brigade "does not yet have sufficient funds to send over a large group." It is hoped that volunteers will be able to provide themselves with arms and passage to either Calcutta or Formosa. The Brigade will give them the names of "contacts" at these places to guide them to the hitherto undetermined mustering point...
Roosevelt, however, dismissed this argument in his letter to Pusey: "To give the excuse that the Loyalty Board had cleared Dr. Bunche--if so be the case--does not excuse the nominating committee. The past decade has shown what type of people often creep into the Loyalty Boards from mysterious sources." In its booklet of documentation, The Alliance, Inc. states that Bunche...