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...case against John Carter Vincent, the State Department careerist who played a key role in the U.S.'s disastrous China policy, had two aspects: Was Vincent a Communist? Whether he was or wasn't, did he make serious misjudgments damaging to the U.S. national interest and helpful to the Red conquest of China...
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...
...State's clearance said nothing on the question of Vincent's misjudgments as the foreign service's No. 1 China expert. It is still State's position, as laid down in the white paper of 1949, that it made no mistakes, that nothing U.S. diplomats did, or might have done, could have saved China for the free world...
...Vincent Massey...
...necklace (for which Cartier, Inc. gets a screen credit), a murder, and the inevitable chase sequence: villainous Brad Dexter, absconding in a stolen car with both Jane Russell and the jewels, as pursued and overtaken by Mature in a helicopter. Besides petulantly tossing her head at both Mature and Vincent Price, Jane sings three songs by Hoagy Carmichael, and is thoroughly photographed in bed, in a glass-walled shower, and in & out of a succession of deep-plunging evening dresses...