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Their specific mission, explained Schnuffler Cohn, was to "see if there's waste and mismanagement, and to pin down responsibility." They also planned to question possible security risks among employees of the U.S. High Commission for Germany, and, as an added assignment, they would inspect the books on the...
"Certainly Amazed." Equally uncooperative but not so loud was Samuel Dashiell Hammett, the grey, gaunt writer of mystery stories (The Thin Man). Three hundred copies of Hammett's books are on the shelves in 73 of the libraries. Hammett said he thought that "it is impossible to write anything...
A more cooperative witness was Negro Poet Langston Hughes, whose books (200 copies of 16 titles) are spread through 51 of the libraries. He readily admitted that he had followed the Communist line for many years, but insisted that he had turned away from it completely in 1950. When McCarthy...
Joe McCarthy had not found out who was responsible for putting the pro-Communist books on the U.S.'s anti-Communist bookshelves. Nor had any spokesman for the old Administration come forward to explain why it was done. The Eisenhower Administration had already acted. Books by known Communists are...
The questioning died out gradually and the photographers began to pester Mrs. Furry about bringing down the children so they could take a family group picture. Mrs. Furry was dubious; she didn't want to get the children mixed up in it. She complained to the Post man that his...