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...Council appointed the U.S.'s Ralph Bunche as Bernadotte's temporary successor. Bunche is a brilliant American Negro, son of a Detroit barber and grandson of a southern slave; a Ph.D. (Harvard), he was professor of political science at Howard University, specialized in colonial problems, served in OSS during the war, joined the State Department and finally became director of U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
...them, she said, were Communist Party members who supplied information through either Silvermaster or Victor Perlo, a WPB employee. She also told what kind of information she gathered. From agents in the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services "I got all types of highly secret information on what OSS was doing . . . secret negotiations in the Balkans, and that parachutists were being dropped." From George Silverman and one Ludwig Ullman, both in Air Force headquarters, she got some details of the B-29 bomber, data on other new types of planes, and the destinations of planes to war theaters. Between nervous...
...Netherlands' Anton Schrader, 29, the oldest in the crowd, had escaped from occupied Holland in a small boat, later parachuted back carrying OSS messages to the Dutch underground. After a year at Yale and the cross-country trip, he had been impressed by "the lack of class distinction, the materialistic thinking of most Americans, their absence of reserve, and the general lack of interest in church." One English girl who attended prep school at Bryn Mawr, Pa. thought that "the amount of food Americans waste is disgusting. The amount of clothes American girls have is tremendous-closets and drawers...
After a seven-day flying trip to Greece, ex-OSS General William J. Donovan announced that the Greek "authorities are handling the case satisfactorily." Some U.S. newsmen, in Greece when George Polk died, were not so sure. Neither was CBS. Three top CBS staffers (Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith and Don Hollenbeck) broadcast a progress report on an independent investigation now being conducted by two CBS legmen...