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Industrialist John C. Virden, who had resigned his job in the Commerce Department because his daughter Euphemia had a job at Tass (TIME, May 31), heard some kind words last week. Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer asked him to come back. Harry Truman added his blessing, said Virden was being sacrificed to "political expediency." With that, Virden withdrew his resignation, went back to the top desk in Commerce's Office of Industry Cooperation...
...atomized instead. Last week, with a nudge from the Hearst press, he made another headline. Hearst's Washington bureau had discovered that the head of the Commerce Department's Office of Industry Cooperation, John C. Virden, had a 22-year-old daughter working in Washington for Tass, the official Russian news agency...
Crawford got off a letter to Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer demanding Virden's resignation. Three days later, Virden, a quiet, capable Cleveland manufacturer who called himself "almost violently anti-atheist-Marxist," resigned. His dark-eyed daughter Euphemia was indeed employed by Tass, as a clerk and teletypist. An earnest, idealistic girl, she had gone to Sarah Lawrence College, became interested in Marxism. No amount of argument or entreaty from her father had done any good. So far as he (and the FBI) knew, she was not a card-holding Communist. But when she took the Tass job, Virden...
Contemporary Russian inventors were not idle. Last week, Tass reported that they had developed a new artificial arm with which disabled veterans could "write, saw and chop wood, strike matches, and operate a machine...
...Tass, the Russian news agency, Benton had a file of its conference dispatches. "If an American or British or French news agency were guilty of such shockingly one-sided, malicious reporting," said he, "the enraged readers would put it out of business. Tass is the official distorter, the official liar of the Soviet government." Lest the Russians miss his point, Bill Benton had copies of his speech passed around to the delegates at Geneva...