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...charged that Lattimore was a "top Soviet espionage agent," the Senate Tydings committee held hearings and gave the professor a ringing clearance. But not everyone was convinced that the last word had been said. Since last July, a Senate subcommittee on Internal Security, headed by Nevada's Pat McCarran, had been going over the ground again. Main points in testimony...
...carnival of Congressional election year investigations Senator Pat McCarran's "Internal Security" subcommittee side-show barely held its own. The subject of its investigation, subversive influences on our post-war China policy, was neither original or even currently relevant. So Committee-members wiled away their time listening to the personal opinions of such stale talent as professional ex-Communist Louis Budeaz. Last week however the show nose-dived to the level of a disgusting spectacle...
...Tydings Committee, two years ago, but this time he brought a fifty page point-by-point refutation statement with him. From the opening hearing Committee members peppered Lattimore with a series of disjointed questions, they refused him the right to qualify statements or even to give personal opinions; Chairman McCarran struck cogent remarks from the record with an air of irresponsible abandon. In three and a half hours, Lattimore was able to read only four and a half paragraphs of his statement...
...several weeks ago. And when his group winds the investigation up in future weeks it will conclude on the same prejudgements that have governed its hearings. At that time perhaps the committee will give some accounting of the reputations, work-days, and dollars that have been poured down the McCarran rathole...
...course, there are other actors in this ten-year-old adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel--Thomas Mitchell is excellent as the Beggar King of backstreet Paris, even Maureen O'Hara is adequate as a gypsy dancer who violates some sort of 16th century McCarran Act and gets the Dungeon in return. For my money, though, it's Laughton all the way. His sardonic leer and characteristic aplomb steal the show whether he is abducting a woman, riding gleefully on the swinging church bells, or swooping down from the sky to save Miss O'Hara from the hangman's noose...