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...willing to negotiate with Communist China on a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait set off high winds on Capitol Hill. Quick and bitter criticism came from Senate Republican Leader William Knowland and from Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner. Retired Brigadier General Frank L. Howley, onetime (1945-49) U.S. commandant in Berlin and now a vice-chancellor of New York University, also spoke out bluntly against his old commander. Finally, at week's end, a dozen G.O.P. Senators, rallied to action by New Jersey's Senator Clifford Case, spoke up in defense of the President...
Waging Peace. Testifying before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Old Reservist Howley attacked not only the' President's position on negotiations with the Chinese Reds but also his exchange of letters with Russia's Georgy Zhukov. Said Howley: "You don't sit down with murderers and discuss business. The longer we wait, the more awful the war will be . . . Defense is no good. It never wins. You can't even win a girl that way. A defensive policy in the long run will destroy the American spirit, among other things...
When a show was stranded in Shrewsbury, she earned her keep as a barmaid. In Lon don, she got a job in the chorus of one of Andre Chariot's revues, understudied Bea trice Lillie, and married a director named Francis Gordon-Howley. During World War I, Gertrude, though both ill and pregnant, took over in Bea's place and stopped the show. In the midst of one of the heaviest Zeppelin raids of the war, she was rushed from the theater for the premature birth of her daughter, Pamela...
...research buildings of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Two years earlier, in the Eastern sector, the Soviets had reopened the old University of Berlin. But they did little more than repeat the Nazi patterns of corruption. A disgusted group of students and professors went to Generals Clay and Howley to plead for a decent school. From the A.M.G. and the West Berlin government of Mayor Ernst Reuter they got money and equipment for a shoestring start...
...stand retelling: The God That Failed, by half a dozen celebrities who had swallowed the Marxist hook but didn't have the wit to gag until they got to the sinker; General Walter Bedell Smith's saga of ambassadorial frustration, My Three Years in Moscow; General Frank Howley's account of day-to-day business with the Russians, Berlin Command; Vladimir Petrov's My Retreat from Russia; ex-Leftist James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could...