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...prominent committeemen as Chester I. Barnard, onetime president of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., Eugene E. Barnett, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. National Council, and Congressman Walter H. Judd of Minnesota, the report found "no reason to believe that any members of the [council] staff are dishonest, disloyal, subversive, proCommunist, or other than conscientious and sincere Christians." But at the same time the committee decided that the council had been getting itself (and Congregationalism) out on the limbs of politics more often than was necessary or wise...
...member, although he added: "I don't know anything about the man.") Last May, when able Deputy Superintendent Ebey's contract was up for renewal by the school board, he too became controversial. A noisy, crusading anti-Communist lawyer named John P. Rogge* charged that Ebey was proCommunist...
...week, at the pre-trial examination in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against him by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler, Winchell's footwork was not quite fancy enough. Witness Winchell, who has broadly implied that the Post and its editor are proCommunist, was drawn into a sad admission: he had plugged the Communist line himself in the past...
...helped shape the disastrous U.S. China policy of the '40s, has been under heavy attack and review. Three times a State Department board cleared him. Then, last December, President Harry Truman's own board found reasonable doubt of Vincent's loyalty (chiefly because of his proCommunist, anti-Nationalist views on China) and recommended his dismissal. Dean Acheson let the case hang over for the new Administration...
This was, in fact, something of a contrived issue. In the period of Vincent's China Affairs service, during the late '30s and early '40s, those in the Foreign Service or outside who dared disagree with State's proCommunist, anti-Nationalist line were the ones likely to suffer discrimination and disparagement...