Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting back to work after a fine autumn weekend, the U.S. people read the big black headlines. The U.S. and its Western allies had broken off the Berlin negotiations with Russia. An American white paper set forth the long and dreary record of Russian stubbornness, stalling and duplicity. Was war really imminent? The answer was somewhere between no and maybe (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Cold Feet." Robert Stripling, the committee's chief investigator, had developed two cases. The first centered around one Arthur Alexandrovich Adams, who shuttled between the U.S. and Moscow before the war, and had been connected with Russian commercial missions in the U.S. Adams, long suspected of espionage for Russia, slipped out from under FBI surveillance in 1945, is now believed to be in the U.S.S.R. The committee linked Adams with two U.S. scientists who had worked on secret atomic projects. One was Clarence Francis Hiskey, 36, now a chemistry professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. The other was slender John...
...committee's story was that in 1944, when Chapin was at work on a secret atomic process at the University of Chicago, Hiskey arranged for him to meet Adams. Hiskey had described Adams as a Russian agent. The meeting took place but Chapin got cold feet. He told the committee under oath that he passed no secrets...
...Russians pay enormous taxes (hidden indirect sales taxes average 350%). In exchange they get an all-pervasive police system whose members are far better fed and clothed than the people themselves; medical care which is dubious by American standards (Welles came across Russian doctors whose cold remedy was mustard powder sprinkled in the patient's socks); and an education which takes 76% of all Russian children no farther than the fourth grade. Writes Welles: "The Kremlin . . . culls out the best children to form the elite governing class ... It makes workers of the rejects...
Chief issue before the convention was the relation of NSA to the Russian oriented International Union of Students. This body carries on many non-political world student projects and NSA sought, and finally evolved, a way to work in these without involving itself in the affairs of IUS as such. Prior to the Czech crisis, NSA had been affiliated with the Prague IUS headquarters...