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This week Mutual Security Director Harold E. Stassen appeared before the McCarthy subcommittee as it began its ship investigations. Before the television cameras, Stassen looked McCarthy squarely in the eye and told him what effect the blockade by subpoena had on U.S. efforts to thwart trade with Communist countries. Said Stassen: "You are in effect undermining and are harmful to our objective...
...bureaucracy, an agency chief, a Cabinet member or even the President does not get his way simply by giving orders. Washington has seen many policies handed down from on high that were never put into effect. High-and middle-level bureaucrats can stall, thwart, water down or otherwise sabotage top decisions without any overt act that can be proved insubordinate...
Baker Street irregulars in Manhattan heard alarming news from London. The Sadlers Wells Company was presenting Sherlock Holmes in tights, with Dr. Watson dancing by his side to help thwart evil Professor Moriarty, in a ballet called The Great Detective. Such goings-on, rumbled the New York Herald Tribune in an editorial, are "nothing less than revolting . . . enough to outrage one's Victorian soul . . . We recall the prescient words of Sherlock Holmes himself: 'There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible...
...reporters stood a freezing round-the-clock watch, hired special radio-equipped cars, guarded every entrance and pounced on every lead for news of May's release. But for every step the newsmen took, the Home Office, which runs Britain's prisons, took a counterstep to thwart them. "It is undesirable," said the Home Office, "that a prisoner should be subjected to undue publicity at the moment of release. As extraordinary steps were taken to give May such publicity, it was necessary to take suitable steps to safeguard...
...party positions, then worked in a textile plant while a refugee in Britain during World War II. He often expressed his admiration for the British character. He was described as disillusioned because the U.S. and Russia failed to cooperate in U.N. (although he seemed to do his best to thwart any cooperation). Once, according to one story, he was making an anti-American speech when a U.S. delegate walked out in a huff. "Why does he get so worked up now?" Katz-Suchy remarked. "I have been making the same speech for years." He also seemed to be guilty occasionally...