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Brownell: I did not impugn his loyalty, and I did not intend to impugn his loyalty...
Caught in a flareback of history, desperate Democrats tried with might & main to wriggle out of the Harry Dexter White scandal. Their line was different from the flat assertions of outrage ("Red herring," "I do not intend to turn my back . . .") that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists...
...usual mission ... I know I was wondering myself why on earth we were using this terrible weapon in Korea even while the peace talks were going on at Kaesong . . . When I think of my future, when I think of some day-though I am not married yet, I intend to be-when my son asks me what I did in Korea, how can I tell him that I came over here and dropped germ bombs on people, destroying them, bringing death and destruction? How can I go back and face my family in a civilized world? How can I tell...
...vigorous Fiorello LaGuardia tradition, Max Brauer was a good mayor. Pointing to reborn Hamburg, he trumpeted: "My administration has done this. I intend to stay." But this week 66-year-old Max Brauer was out of the Rathaus. In local municipal elections to choose the 120-man Hamburg State Assembly, which in turn selects the mayor, a four-party conservative bloc inched out Brauer's Social Democrats. The coalition won 50% of the vote, and 62 Assembly seats to the Socialists...
Said the President: he is deeply interested in what happens to the complexion of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. At the same time, he does not intend to make of the presidency an agency to use in partisan politics. He has the conception that, although elected by only part of the population, anyone occupying the office is President of all the people. The Chief Executive has the responsibility of attempting to develop a program for the benefit of all the people. His success in framing such a program depends on the caliber of his associates from...