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...handle the mail of White House Assistant Lauchlin Currie while Currie was away...
...righteousness completely muffled, made no indignant, categoric denials of Communist membership or espionage. Instead, 65 times, in a flat singsong, he refused to answer committee questions, on the now familiar ground that he might incriminate himself. He refused, for instance, to say whether he had ever known White or Lauchlin Currie. He even refused to say whether he was then & there engaged in espionage against the U.S. Cried the hearing's exasperated chairman, Senator Herbert O'Conor: "The sorriest spectacle . . . Very disgraceful . . . Coe should be dismissed summarily from his post...
...case, they found a letter I wrote to Lauchlin Currie, one-time administrative assistant to F.D.R., when I was in China. I told him about intellectuals in China...
Lattimore had told the Tydings committee that he didn't have a desk in the State Department; he had also told an executive session of the McCarran inquiry that he never took care of the mail of Lauchlin Currie, then an assistant to President Franklin Roosevelt. Under crossexamination, he confessed to being absentminded. He did, after all, remember having a room in Currie's offices in the old State Department building; he used it frequently. Furthermore, it was true that during Currie's absence, he read Currie's mail...
...Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...