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Before World War II Canadian immigration had almost completely dried up; many Canadians doubted that their economy could ever handle more than the natural population increase. But when 1,000,000 ex-servicemen were reabsorbed without any dislocation at war's end, the government decided to experiment with a freer immigration policy...
General Shepherd considered the court's recommendation that Red torture tactics called for a study of some new instructions to servicemen to replace the order that prisoners give no information other than name, rank and serial number...
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 54, Secretary of the Army, believes that he has one primary mission in the dispute with McCarthy: to safeguard servicemen's morale and the public's confidence in the Army. Last week Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway made a conspicuous entrance to the floodlit hearing room in mid-session, and sat down right behind Witness Stevens. By this mute signal, the world learned that Stevens' fight had the professional Army behind...
...threatening to punish servicemen who supply McCarthy with tips, 4) offering to break a general in return for McCarthy's promise of silence, 5) threatening to expose the Schine case unless McCarthy abandoned his probe of the Army's Loyalty Board...
...Rare Exception. Against these charges, a defensive McCarthy salient was sketched out by his request to the Pentagon for the number of times since Pearl Harbor that Congressmen have intervened with the armed forces on behalf of servicemen. McCarthy's request made no distinction between incidents of legitimate congressional concern for constituents and demands accompanied by threats of reprisal against the armed-service departments. The Pentagon answered that demands for special treatment of individuals are "rare." Navy Secretary Robert Anderson, reflecting the view of the three services, said he knew of no case in which a Congressman "has persisted...