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...reference was to McCarthy's assertion four weeks ago that he would not divulge the source of his bogus letter, a document that contained niched security information dressed up with phony letter-like trappings. "I think the oath [of office] towers far above any presidential secrecy directive," McCarthy told McClellan, who rejoined: "I don't know of any oath that any man took for loyalty to his country that required him to commit a crime...
...discussion in the Justice Department in which White House aides took part (see above). Army Secretary Stevens belatedly issued a statement that the discussion did not govern the Army's actions, and that the Army had taken no orders from the White House. Stevens repeated the statement under oath this week...
Bureaucratic Blackmail? Fluttering his eyelashes at the television cameras, Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen was placed under oath and told how John Adams and White House Aide Gerald Morgan came to his office last Jan. 22 to urge against the subcommittee's calling Army loyalty panelists. It was then, Dirksen said, that he heard for the first time of the Cohn-Schine matter. Although he could not say that Adams actually tried to use the Cohn-Schine report as a club, Dirksen said that he had a "vague" recollection of "hints" in that direction, all of which caused...
...Near Mombasa (pop. 85,000), chief town in the steamy coastal plain, a gang of blood-smeared Negroes buried the remains of two mutilated sheep, then crept back to their huts after taking the Mau Mau oath: "I swear to kill a white man, or may this oath kill me!" One of the oath-takers was a 31-year-old Negro servant, well known for his loyalty to Mrs. Eileen Ennis, one of Mombasa's 2,000 whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police...
...morning, the Democrats on the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee would do well to keep their sights trained on Senator McCarthy and forget about embarrassing President Eisenhower. Last week, when they demanded that the men who advised the President on how to handle McCarthy be forced to air their strategy under oath, the Democratic members played right into McCarthy's hands...