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...Councilman Taylor did his best to prevent Physician Broda from getting a raise in pay (from ?950 to ?1,300 yearly) but was voted down. Last week he was busy trying to get the doctor fired from her job altogether. Reason: last August, Dr. Broda married Atomic Physicist Alan Nunn May-ex-convict and a key member of the U.S.S.R.'s wartime atomic-spy ring in Canada...
Councilman Taylor's motion, said another Laborite, was "a dirty, saucy attack." Was it his "business to introduce the filthy system of McCarthyism here? Dr. Nunn May has served a prison * for his crime. How many more sentences must he serve? Turn this wicked resolution into a vote of confidence in Dr. Broda!" By acclamation, the council voted to turn down Taylor's motion and keep...
...spite of the scandals kicked up by Atomic Scientists Alan Nunn May and Bruno Pontecorvo, and by Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, most Britons still find it hard to take their home-grown Communists seriously. Party membership is down to fewer than 30,000 and falling; the Communists lost their only two Members of Parliament in the general elections of 1950. One reason for this state of affairs is that the Communists themselves have shifted from electioneering to getting a hold on industry. Last week Britain was learning what Communists could do when they had firm control...
Hidden Documents. The U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator William Jenner, was immediately interested. The documents that Gouzenko carried with him when he fled helped convict eleven spies, including a Canadian M.P. and a British scientist, Allan Nunn May, and gave leads on some 400 other suspected Red operatives in the West. The Jenner committee, through the State Department, asked Canada to let its investigators talk to Gouzenko...
...strongest personalities aboard the death ship was a Mrs. Nunn, the widow of a British colonial officer who went down with the Rooseboom. She became a sort of spiritual mother for the derelicts. A few days before she died, she took a Bible that someone had salvaged and read a religious service to all her companions. Not long after that, Gibson organized a counterattack against the murder gang and threw them overboard...