Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of small-arms fire from U.S. editorial pages, the Army retreated in lumber-footed embarrassment last week. It had blundered, the Army admitted, in dishing up a fortnight ago the warmed-over, spiced-up story of pre-Pearl Harbor spying for Russia by Japanese and German Communists in Japan (TIME, Feb. 21). Most of all, it had blundered in charging, without documentation, that leftish Journalists Agnes Smedley and Guenther Stein were actually Russian spies...
Teeth In the Harbor. With the champ gone, the Tory seconds swarmed in on Bevan like an army of Lilliputians-but in vain. Why and how, they wanted to know, had Bevan come to be so inaccurate in his estimates. Protested one Tory: "If a business firm or a contractor made such a ghastly error, he would go bankrupt...
Labor members whooped and cheered. Bevan got his extra ?58 million. A fitting epilogue came from Bristol, where a workingman feeding sea gulls sneezed his false teeth into the harbor and was voted a new set by the local health officials. Generously, they held he had lost his teeth "by accident and not carelessness...
...Washington the Army handed out a flamboyantly written 32,000-word report from Douglas MacArthur's headquarters -the story of a Russian spy ring in Japan before Pearl Harbor. Chief of the ring was a slick German Communist named Dr. Richard Sorge, a lady-killing, hard-drinking grandson of Karl Marx's secretary, who wormed himself into a job as press attaché on the German Embassy staff in Tokyo. He was able to warn Moscow of the German attack on Russia 33 days before it took place. In October 1941 the Japs caught him and later hanged...
After Pearl Harbor she fell in with a Foreign Office radio official named Max Otto Koischwitz. Koischwitz, who had once been a professor at New York's Hunter College, was a man of influence. That, plus Mildred Gillars' soft and insinuating American voice, brought her a highly paid job-opportunity to show her talent. Soon she was doing her best to undermine the morale of U.S. troops, was famed from Africa to Italy as Axis Sally...