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...crimson creed" of American interests which had dealt with the Reds. Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy happily announced (without naming names) that two members of the China International Foundation's board had been active in Communist-front groups. Then the President, who was presumably hot-eyed also, called Newbold in to hear a few well-chosen words...
While the Republican Senators were working him over, Newbold, with the air of a man who was trying to make somebody else his Air-Wick, had started working over the President. As a guest on the television program Meet the Press, he coolly implied that Truman was holding out on him. He announced that he wanted any of 25,000 Government employees-to whom he has sent questionnaires-to be fired if they refused to tell all about their incomes. He added, threateningly, that he would quit if the President refused to act. He tramped on the President...
...Angel Gabriel? He would not, Newbold said, have appointed either man in the first place. When he was asked, "Has Vaughan been fired?" he replied, significantly, "Not yet." He was asked if he thought cabinet members who tolerated corruption should be fired. He answered: "What's so wonderful about a cabinet member?" He waxed sarcastic when someone wanted to know why Truman had ordered the cleanup drive. "Who," he intoned, "is to know whether the Angel Gabriel appeared to the President...
...they are probably less aware of a very similar plight enmeshing a far less sympathetic figure, Newbold Morris who has been tied down by a bevy of Congressmen ever since he first trumpeted his President blessed intention to crush governmental corruption. These Congressmen have been telling him a long dull story about a handful of war surplus tankers whose trails were more tortuous than any Handle and Gristle have yet negotiated...
...only genuine issue of corruption left, then, is Newbold Morris' plight, and that need hardly concern the President. It involves, to be sure, the government's handling of war surplus material, but this is of far less political consequence than the Internal Revenue case. The only one who really stands to lose is Newbold Morris...