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...five weeks before: "I do not intend to turn my back on Alger Hiss."; New Hampshire's Styles Bridges batted first with a soft paw. "Mr. Secretary," he asked across the table, "what do you consider a security risk?" With deadpan seriousness Acheson ticked off departmental regulations on treason, espionage, sus picious association and moral weaknesses that could be "preyed upon." His Deputy Under Secretary for Administra tion, John Peurifoy, added th statistics. Since early 1947, he said, 202 State Department employees (out of 17,000) had resigned in loyalty investigations; 91 of them had been found on morals...
...Naval Operations, he gave Sherman the job of working out the unification agreement. Sherman dutifully sat down with his friend Lieut. General Lauris Norstad of the Army Air Force and negotiated agreement. To the anti-unification Navymen, led by Vice Admiral Arthur Radford, this was just short of treason to their service. When Denfeld brought Radford to Washington as his vice chief, Sherman went off to take command of the Mediterranean Fleet...
...jury of Fellows in American Letters of the U.S. Library of Congress, including T. S. Eliot, awarded the annual $1,000 Bollingen Prize for the "highest achievement of American poetry" to Ezra Pound (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949), who was then in an insane asylum and under indictment for treason (he had spent the war in Italy as propaganda broadcaster for Mussolini). Some critics attacked Eliot as being chiefly responsible for the award, but the jury emphatically denied that Eliot had nominated Pound for the award, or had exerted any influence on his behalf...
...Germans" is stocky, pushing Wolfgang He.dl.er, 50, an early Nazi, now a formally denazified member of Bonn's Bundestag. Hedler's denazification is skin-deep. A reactionary Deutsche Partei man, he believes that Hitler's defeat was no failure of fascism; it sprang from the "treason and sabotage of the resistance movement." Last November in Einfeld Hedler boldly harangued a crowd of refugees, disgruntled farmers, ex-officers and soldiers...
After Skardon and other witnesses had given testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...