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...June 25, 1950, advised Secretary General Trygve Lie to advocate U.N. intervention). He was upset over Lie's resignation last week. But what depressed Feller most were the problems and pressures that had been laid on the U.N. in recent months by a Federal grand jury and the McCarran Senate subcommittee, in their investigation of subversive Americans on the U.N. Secretariat. Feller, under no suspicion himself, was the U.N.'s legal adviser on the subject. The hearings uncovered 17 among the 2,000 Americans on the U.N. staff who refused to say whether or not they have engaged...
...former New Deal lawyer in Washington, he worked as a liaison agent between the U.N. and Senate committees investigating Communist activities among American personnel of the organization. However, a counsel for the McCarran Senate sub-committee conducting one probe said Feller himself was not under investigation...
...whom the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists tags "Britain's leading anti-communist scholar", Michael Polanyi is having a lot of trouble with the McCarran Act. In January 1951 Polanyi applied for a visa to take over the chair of Social Philosophy at the University of Chicago. The State Department told him on June 26, 1952, that "he was a person inadmissable into the U. S. under the provisions of (the McCarran Act). These relate to certain political beliefs or activities; and to membership in or affiliation with certain organizations...
...Nevada, the Republican incumbent, windy, British-baiting George W. ("Molly") Malone, 62, soundly trounced Democrat Thomas Mechling, 31. Democratic Senator Pat McCarran, who bitterly hates Senator Malone and does not speak to him, nevertheless supported him in revenge against Fair Dealer Mechling, an ex-Washington newsman who surprised everybody by snatching the Democratic nomination from McCarran's machine...
...Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota introduced a similar bill, and when it was defeated by a fillibuster, Ives proposed a cloture bill. Besides favoring FEPC, he has supported the Anti-Lynching and Anti-Poll tax bills. He pleased New York's large groups of immigrants by campaigning against the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Ives is strong on foreign aid, having advocated ECA, MSA, Point Four, and aid to Korea...