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...meeting had been called, he continued, because the Army "had to have advice. That was the purpose of that meeting . . . Now the only reason I issued the order was because I saw . . . that there was going to be a long sidetrack established . . . that had no possible connection with this investigation. Far from me trying to get any investigation off the track, I was merely trying with the timely statement to keep it on the rails ... I want to see this thing settled conclusively ... let the chips fall where they...
Meanwhile, in the Senate yesterday, a move to sidetrack the proposal seemed to be taking shape. Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) told the Senate that he would try to have the constitutional amendment returned to the Senate Judiciary Committee as soon as possible. If this happens, there may be no action taken on the proposal for the remainder of this congressional session...
...Truman Administration over the problem of American subversives in the U.N. In the past nine months, a hundred witnesses appeared before the jurors; they left behind a shocking impression of Red infiltration at the U.N.'s high levels. But Washington, through the Justice and State Departments, tried to sidetrack and block the inquiry. In a thunderous presentment, shaking off all attempts to restrain it, the grand jury made public its findings. Main points...
Said Chairman Chelf: "It appears to me that there was a definite attempt either to flag down, delay, sidetrack, derail or entirely wreck this grand-jury investigation." The committee voted to call in ex-Attorney General McGrath for a fuller explanation...
...this point For Men Only dilutes its story with such exagerated side-plots as the attempt of Omega Nu's president to trump up a morals charge against the professor. But in the course of this sidetrack, we get a picture of the college administration performing various acrobatic hush-up operations to prevent "the alumni's pens from freezing in their checkbooks...