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Activity so far had been confined to committee rooms. Under the chairmanship of New Jersey's Fred Hartley Jr., the House labor committee reported out an omnibus bill which would hit organized labor almost as hard as some G.O.P. Congressmen had promised they would before election. Among other things, the House would bar the closed shop and most industry-wide bargaining. It would deny any bargaining rights to unions having Communist officers. It would give injunctive powers to the Government in disputes involving "the public health, safety or interest." It would abolish the National Labor Relations Board. Even...
...greatly interested by your article [TIME, Feb. 10] about Mrs. Anthony C. Hartley (Deborah Kerr), because of the fact that I knew R.A.F. Squadron Leader Bartley when he was stationed at the Orlando, Fla. Army Air Base. I ... have wondered why the great L.B. [Louis B. Mayer] doesn't make his find a double-header and make a movie star out of Tony...
Almost inextricably tangled, the troop-and-armament matter was hustled back to subcommittee. Sir Hartley tried simultaneously to save, face for Britain, and The Bomb for the U.S., by rewriting his resolution, whereupon Russia's Vishinsky accused him of welshing on his "gentleman's agreement" with Molotov. Assembly President Spaak (who happened to be the subcommittee chairman, and who has been an unpublicized tower of strength during the whole meeting) saved the day by separating the troop question from the armament question. The troop count was abandoned; the disarmament plan, thus disencumbered, was sent on to the plenary...
...Hartley Shawcross, who had given up all hope of catching the Queen Elizabeth, realized that the big ship was still at her pier when he cast his last vote. He telephoned the Cunard Line, made a flying trip to his hotel, packed, hustled to the dock. In the scramble he forgot his passport. His secretary got it to him, in a basket pulled up on a line, just as the ship was moving...
...quite a week for Sir Hartley. It was also quite a week for the world...