Word: whitewashed
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When the vote was taken, the committee backed Russell's ruling 18-8. The Republicans themselves split 6-6. Unabashed, Wiley cried: "It is the committee majority which has been partisan in its frantic desire to cover up and whitewash." While his colleagues kept a pained silence, Wiley declared that the committee should subpoena Harry Truman himself. This was too much for Chief Republican Strategist Robert A. Taft, who disowned it as something that "constitutionally couldn't be done...
...Agrarian Reformers. The most controversial issue in the China story is still the nature of China's Nationalist Government. Author Utley does not try to whitewash the Chiang Kai-shek regime. But she reviews Chiang's crushing postwar problems: the revival of a national economy beaten down by eight years of war against Japan. "The picture, drawn by popular journalists and authors, of a reactionary Kuomintang preserving a 'feudal' social organization," she concludes, "was in fact entirely misleading...
...witness," McCarthy went on with evident relish, "was doing exactly what the chairman wanted him to do. The chair, I felt, was not interested in eliciting information from the witness which would indicate the presence of Communists in Government. The chairman was trying to conduct a whitewash...
...Quick Whitewash. Only one thing went wrong: Impellitteri filed for mayor. Followed by a handful of Tammany district leaders who hoped to run the Tiger as they pleased if he won, Impy wrote out his own bill of divorcement from the Democratic machine, gave himself a quick whitewash and bounded onstage gleaming like the driven snow and shouting that he was an Independent. To Tammany's horror, the acting mayor began getting applause, particularly after he took advantage of the Brooklyn gambling scandal (TIME, Oct. 9) to appoint big, reassuring Tom Murphy, the Alger Hiss prosecutor, as police commissioner...
...Nobler Ideal. Some of the whitewash seems a little thick. But the timidity of Japanese statesmen who wanted peace is explained, in part at least, by the army's ferocity in assassinating its enemies in the government, as well as by its success in dissolving any cabinet that opposed its views. Even after the fall of Okinawa, the supreme command was determined to fight on, ignoring frantic Japanese diplomatic moves to negotiate a peace through Russia's good offices...