Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disaster in his cold unlighted office. That night when I got home for a late supper, I was scared witless by a BBC voice saying down the hall: 'Coalition ... coalition ... coalition' and thought for a wild moment that our limb had been sawed off. It was the report of Attlee's speech, confirming all our dope that coalition was unthinkable...
...Taft's mind the clincher was the "same general softness" in the "Lilienthal report." According to Taft, the plan (until modified by Bernard Baruch) would have permitted "an international authority to duplicate our atom manufacturing plants throughout the world-including Russia." Taft's conclusion: "I do not want to see a man as muddled in his thinking on questions of international power in charge of our atom-bomb policies. I would consider his confirmation a real threat to our national safety...
Whose Responsibility? But Bob Taft's case looked something like a dressed-up version of the other attacks. What he called the "Lilienthal report" was actually the combined product of such coauthors as Atomic Scientist Robert Oppenheimer, Bell Telephone's Chester Barnard, Monsanto Chemical's Dr. Charles A. Thomas. It had been approved by the State Department's special committee on atomic energy-which included such men as Harvard's James B. Conant, Major General Leslie R. Groves and onetime Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. In the words of the report itself...
...Senator claimed, as part of his generous first-coat of red, that Lilienthal made no safeguards against foreign abuse of atomic power in the Acheson-Atomic Energy report, which Lilienthal helped to prepare. This claim does not jibe with the facts; Mr. Lilienthal subscribed to the gradual-surrender-of-secrets feature of the report which emphasized the need for security at each stage of expanding international control. Just as closely related to fact is "Mr. Lilienthal is one of those typical power-hungry bureaucrats who in recent years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes...
...meeting, H.L.U. President William Bozman '46 will also report on his testimony prepared for the Legislative Committee, on the subject of a state rent control commission...