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...possess a curious internal logic. The action "saves" 31-million-odd dollars in OIC outlay; it pleases those congressional minds who feel that the existence of America is, as such, her own best propaganda; and it ends the life of the OIC, the successor of that OWI which so many Congressmen unflinchingly regard as communistic...
...Willard Hotel's Congressional Room. When they emerged they had a name (Americans for Democratic Action), a bankroll ($9,-300), and a 25-man organizing committee, loaded with headline names: labor leaders Walter Reuther and Dave Dubinsky; A.V.C.'s chairman and Rhodes Scholar Charles Bolte; ex-OWI Boss Elmer Davis; U.D.A.'s Chairman Reinhold Niebuhr; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (Eleanor Roosevelt was present, but she begged off serving on the committee). As cochairmen, the committeemen picked old New Dealer Leon Henderson and ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt...
Come Work with Me. Young (33), puckish Correspondent Sam Boal had come up through a succession of routine newspaper jobs. Back from a wartime OWI assignment, he was sounding off about bad foreign-news coverage at a Manhattan cocktail party. The Post's Editor Ted Thackrey heard him, said: "If you're so damn good, come down and work for me." That was a year and a half ago. Now Thackrey calls Boal "one of the best men we have," gives him a free hand and $250 a week (including expenses). But Sam Boal is glad to give...
...also glad that he went to Oxford later, on that Rhodes Scholarship. "In the third year they let you travel, and I went to China, as I'd always wanted to do." This was in 1932; he has spent half the years since then in China, with the OWI and the State Department...
Englishmen with a hard word for Herbert Agar are hard to find. U.S. Ambassador John Winant borrowed Lieut. Commander Agar from the Navy late in 1943 to convince doubting Britons that the U.S. would be not only the arsenal of democracy but a provider of men. Later, as London OWI head, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), handsome Herbert Agar did a notable job of helping to dissolve British-U.S. differences. He exhorted factory workers in their own language, patched up tiffs between British mayors and U.S. troops. On first meeting, people might think Herbert Agar was also soft...