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Native Wit. It was only the first blow of the week for Bidault. Bidault had sworn that if the Laniel government fell, he would remain at Geneva as representative of a caretaker government even if he had "to go back to France every two or three days and stump the country" for his policy. The actual vote (see below), with its majority of two, was almost...
Almost all week long, the subcommittee tried to develop the story of the clumsy subterfuge. Who had tried to deceive whom? Counsel Jenkins left the subcommittee table and had himself sworn as an witness. During his study of the McCarthy side of the case, he testified, McCarthy's counsel Roy Cohn had told him that Stevens requested an picture of himself with Schine. Said Jenkins: "He told me that he had documentary evidence . . . Nothing was said to me, I am sure, about the photograph being altered, changed, edited or otherwise. I accepted it at its face value...
...Negro contractor from Des Moines, climbed up on the back seat of a crimson Chevrolet convertible and headed a brass-band parade up the Kronprindsensgade (Crown Prince Street) and down the Dronningensgade (Queen Street). At the Emancipation Garden where the Danes* freed their slaves in 1848, he was sworn in as the first Republican governor of the Virgin Islands (pop. 26,665, of whom 91% are of Negro or mixed blood...
...Economic Minister's choosing to the Cabinet, and refused to make Markezinis Vice Premier. Athenians also guessed that the two men would soon mend their differences. "If this had happened in the army," said one, "the Old Man would merely have confined him to barracks for two weeks . . ." Sworn in as Economic Minister less than 24 hours after the resignation was none other than Spyros Markezinis' own right-hand man and close friend, Thanos Kapsalis...
Early in his public feud with the Army last month, Joe McCarthy triumphantly charged that the Signal Corps had a Communist named Annie Lee Moss encoding and decoding "top-secret" messages in its Pentagon headquarters. Proof? He had the sworn testimony of a woman FBI agent...