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Last week the State Department once again vouched for Vincent's loyalty, and ordered him back from Washington, where he had appeared before the Senate Internal Security inquiry, to his post as U.S. minister in Tangier. The clearance was a stiff reply to both Joe McCarthy and ex-Communist Louis Budenz who charged that Vincent operated as a Communist sympathizer while he ran State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs between 1945 and 1947. To make the point sharp, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Vincent his personal assurance of "the department's full confidence . . . appreciation...
...empty hand, nonetheless, Novelist Paul (The Sheltering Sky) Bowles has tried to create a modern hero. Dyar is not a man, he is a vacuum. His only deep desire is to fill his own emptiness. He throws up his job as a New York bank teller, takes ship to Tangier, and waits for things to happen to him-any things, so long as they are solid enough to give him the feeling of being in touch with reality...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
...main portion of the picture takes place in exotic Tangier, the crossroads of international skullduggery, and Hope slinks through the Moroccan bazzaars with the grace of a three-footed panther. The whole things ends with a grand chise in the traditional W.C. Fields style...
...Wall Street last week, barely five weeks after it had been freed from controls to establish its own value, the Canadian dollar hit par with the U.S. dollar. Across the world, in the free markets of Paris, Milan, Tangier and Beirut, Canadian dollars were suddenly in such brisk demand that money-changers priced them at 101 U.S. cents. In the confused hippodrome of international finance, the wide, moss-green Bank of Canada banknote was running neck & neck with the U.S. dollar as the world's most desirable currency...