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...both sides appeared to be taking greater liberties with the air over neutral countries. Anti-aircraft gunners in Belgium, Denmark, even in Norway, went into action against foreign war planes crossing their skies. Most extraordinary was an occurrence one dawn near Rotterdam. A big Armstrong Whitley bomber flew over the heart of Holland toward its base in Britain after a night's work over Germany. Lieut. P. Noomen of The Netherlands Air Force was called from his bed. Pulling his flying suit over his pajamas he leaped into his Fokker fighter and roared aloft, signaled the British ship...
...this was only the profile of the plot. Washington buzzed with blacker hints. The New York Sun said right out loud that the Dies Committee's counsel, ex-G-Man Rhea Whitley, knew about the letters in December, even knew about the plan to air them on the floor of the House. Mayne himself had told him, charged the Sun, and Mayne had also reported to the Dies Committee his negotiations with Jackson. Why had not Mr. Whitley spoken up? Said Congressman Marcantonio of New York: "If this statement is true, then the counsel of this committee engaged...
...week's end, Mr. Whitley's resignation lay in the office of the Dies Committee. Mr. Whitley himself was in Florida. Congressman Hook, not quite sure whether he was a hero or a fall guy, looked fiercely in all directions. Congress cleared its throat and felt in its pockets for a fresh cigar...
...desperate state of mind of the defeated South. Few correspondents would give Chairman Dies credit for statesmanship. Many held him only a showman. Some considered him a dangerous demagogue; some gave credit for the Committee's more effective work to Investigator J. B. Matthews and Attorney Rhea Whitley. But the Committee's cumulative findings suggested that Chairman Dies's perpetually scandalized method of listening to everybody, hauling in back-fence radical gossip, old shoes, scandals, guesses and wild charges, was perhaps the best method of building up the picture of the elusive world of U. S. Communism...
...House committee on Un-American Activities imposed upon itself a publicity rule: no sounding-off by individual members (including Chairman Martin Dies), only statements by the committee as a whole. With its new $100,000 appropriation in hand, the committee hired Lawyer Rhea Whitley, 35, to head its investigating staff. Mr. Whitley, stocky and curly-haired, was in FBI for ten years (1927-37), with a final "nice, easy, restful" hitch in Manhattan. He studied law at Washington & Lee, married a Sweet Briar girl. Un-Americans from Jonesboro, Ark. might get a break from him. He was born there...