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...very inconsistency of the arguments of these men is demonstrated by their switch from isolationists to war-on-China-now. Six months ago, with Hoover as their spokesman, they said, "Let's sit it out alone." Today, with MacArthur as their new spokesman, they say, "Let's fight it alone." What a switch! And Taft leads them all in his absurd contradiction of himself...
...some of Bell's stories since he joined our Chicago staff in 1942. His account of the 1947 Centralia Mine disaster is still the model for young correspondents on Mid-West assignments. Among the cover stories for which he supplied background: Harold Stassen (1947), FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover (1949), Frank Costello (1949), and Charles E. Wilson (1951). In his work as a war correspondent, Bell's "Battle of No Name Ridge" was one of the most gripping stories to come out of Korea...
Salty old (71) Seth Richardson was good & mad. He was, by his own lights, as dyed-in-the-wool a conservative as a man could be-a wealthy Washington corporation lawyer, a Republican, an avowed isolationist. His Republicanism went way back -to the Hoover administration, when he was Assistant Attorney General, and beyond that, back to his days in North Dakota. Now his critics in Congress were questioning his loyalty...
This week, British Military Intelligence Chief Sir Percy Sillitoe flew to Washington for talks with the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover. Their topic: a general tightening of U.S.-British security...
After Ferrer admitted a host of careless affiliations, exasperated Committeeman Harold Velde recalled that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had once said that an innocent person could perhaps join two or three Red front organizations-but not six or seven. Replied Ferrer: "I don't know, sir. That is not true in my case." But just to show the committee that he had finally gotten his politics straightened out, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer added, a little irrelevantly: "I am completely against Puerto Rican independence...