Word: hooverness
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...when Truman allowed White's appointment to the International Monetary Fund to go through? Did Truman keep White so that the FBI would catch fellow conspirators? On these points there is a public record, and last week Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover read it before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Salient passages...
...least that he might be a spy. The controversy turns on whether Truman ought to have permitted his appointment to the International Monetary Fund. Truman's first assertion, that he retained White to allow the FBI to collect information enough to convict him is at best dubious, witness Hoover's testimony. Truman's further assertion, however, that he retained White to protect the FBI's extensive investigation then in progress seems much stronger...
...Hoover's warning to members of the cabinet not to endanger his agency's sources must have influenced the President's decision. It is very rare that the FBI gives advice, and consequently any advice it does give carries great weight. This being so, when the chief of the FBI warns against rashness on the one hand and refrains from warning against the appointment of White on the other, surely the President could reasonably feel that the interests of national security lay with keeping White...
...argument suggested by another portion of Hoover's testimony, that protecting the investigation could not have been Truman's reason since several employees were dismissed on security grounds, seems far-fetched. At best, dismissing a bureaucrat or two alerts the espionage system to a danger to a few suckers on the tip-ends of its tendrils; dismissing White, with or without explanation, would alert the entire apparatus. The Government does not ordinarily dismiss high officers for no apparent reason, and, had Truman followed such a course, no espionage ring worthy of the name could have failed to realize what...
...Truman speech was broadcast late at night, while the senate hearings took place in the afternoon and were no longer as timely for the next morning's paper. The HLU telegram, though perhaps a bit overplayed, was local news, and it had a higher priority than the Brownell-Hoover story, which, by the way, had a bigger headline and as many column inches devoted to it as the Truman speech...