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Early in October in New York's stolid old Foley Square Courthouse, the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security began an investigation of U.S. subversives in the United Nations Secretariat. Senator O'Connor, a Maryland Democrat, the Committee's acting chairman, said the probe would be "solely to safeguard the internal security of the United States." The Committee, he promised, would steer clear of any interference in U.N. affairs...
...Britain's prisons, took a counterstep to thwart them. "It is undesirable," said the Home Office, "that a prisoner should be subjected to undue publicity at the moment of release. As extraordinary steps were taken to give May such publicity, it was necessary to take suitable steps to safeguard...
...This safeguard in the Bill of Rights is the so-called privilege against selfincrimination; historically, it arose out of the English law as protection for accused individuals who once could be tortured into admissions against themselves. But the right of anyone to refuse to say whether he is, or was, a Communist or a Soviet spy does not carry with it the right to a job in the U.N. or anywhere else...
...where the Republican leadership as a group turned from isolationism, Dulles first met Fellow Republican Arthur Vandenberg. On Vandenberg's recommendation, Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 sent Dulles as a delegate to the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations, where his special contribution was a formula to safeguard Latin American regional interests...
...arrive in Paris early Thursday afternoon. Other page proofs were flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu and Tokyo, and from Idlewild to Miami, to be transferred to a chartered Pan American flight for Cuba. Stories were also cabled directly from the U.S. to Paris and Tokyo, as a safeguard against delays in air traffic. Buried in the mass of detail these arrangements involved, TIME Production Chief Bert Chapman confessed: "At a time like this, I carry my files in my head...