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Veteran U.S. Diplomat John Carter Vincent has long been No. 2 on Senator Joe McCarthy's list of accused Communists in the State Department. Last summer ex-Communist Louis Budenz echoed McCarthy's accusation...
...Vincent also testified that he had approved of U.S. efforts to promote a coalition government in China, one in which the Reds could participate. He had helped write the directive for the ill-fated Marshall mission that had tried to bring this about. Clearly, when his advice had counted most, Vincent too had misjudged the Communists...
...other hand, Vincent's testimony bogged down when he tried to defend U.S. China policy in the '40s. As chief of the Division of Chinese Affairs, he had sponsored his good friend Owen Lattimore as a State Department consultant. Now, he admitted, he knew better. Confronted with some of Lattimore's statements, Vincent found them "unrealistic ... a clear misconception of Communism...
...short, the testimony, while it failed to support the charges of Budenz and McCarthy, did confirm that Vincent had been one of the chief architects of a policy that led to a triumph for Communism and a disaster...
...Vegas Story (RKO Radio] must have been easy for Jane Russell because she has done so many movies just like it. This time, Jane arrives in Las Vegas as the discontented wife of Vincent Price, a near-bankrupt broker who hopes to remake his fortune at the dice tables. To Jane, the visit is one long remembrance of things past, for it was in Las Vegas that she loved and left Victor Mature, a local policeman. In their big confrontation scene, Jane delicately dilates her nostrils and Victor clenches his jaw so hard that his ears wiggle, thus making...