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...first job ($500 a year) was as an English teacher in a church mission school at Allahabad, India. After a year of that, he spent a decade in State Department service at home & abroad. Then he followed his brother into Sullivan & Cromwell. During World War II, he was the OSS chief in Switzerland, where he pieced together priceless bits of intelligence collected from Allied spies, neutral travelers and anti-Hitler Germans. The information he obtained about the Nazi V-weapon program led to the bombing of the research center and set the program back at least six critical months. After...
...most distinguished members of the American bar declared last week that in giving this deposition I had 'done what any good citizen should have done under the circumstances.' " Among the 22 members of the bar were ex-Ambassador to Russia Joseph Davies, World War II OSS Chief Major General William Donovan, a Republican, and John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic presidential candidate who is now supporting Eisenhower...
...Possible." Next morning 49-year-old Zablodowsky, onetime editor for prosperous Viking Press, later a State Department employee and an official in the wartime OSS, took the stand. He admitted membership in the Red underground, but denied ever joining the Communist Party. Zablodowsky, who had previously denied Red ties, had a disingenuous explanation this time: "In 1935 I was terribly excited about Hitler and Nazism. It triggered me to action." The Communists were among "the very few people awake to the menace of Hitler" at the time. Had he helped the passport ring? "I did it unknowingly . . . It is possible...
World War II produced few such chilling mystery tales as the case of OSS Major William V. Holohan-the big, brusque U.S. reserve officer who was killed by his own men in 1944 amid an atmosphere of partisan intrigue behind the German lines in Italy. Few crimes have been so well documented. But last week it became virtually certain that the murder of Major Holohan will forever remain a Completely unpunishable crime...
...Since OSS was probing for the Weltschmerz in the German soul, the bouncy original lyrics were worked over until the death-wish showed through. Time on My Hands originally saw "nothing but love in view"; Marlene's version points out darkly that "the end has to come sooner or later." Taking a Chance on Love, once a devil-may-care ditty, pictures a cross standing "in the evening gold," marking the end of life and love. Translated excerpt (a German soldier speaking...