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Dulles proposed the letter of affirmation Wednesday as speedier than the usual FBI investigation. Senator Alexander Wiley, committee chairman, commented that the FBI report procedure was good, but impractical because some field investigations take up to two months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Group Begins Action Upon Conant | 1/30/1953 | See Source »

Meanwhile, controversy over the Conant choice continued both on religious and economic fronts, although according to Senator Alexander wiley (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate committee, no formal protest has been received...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee to By-pass FBI Probe of Conant | 1/29/1953 | See Source »

...that 40 of the 1,794 Americans on the U.N.'s staff were bad security risks. Twenty-six had been fired by Lie. Fourteen others were still on the U.N. payroll because, said Lie, the State Department had not given him any evidence supporting the charges. Senator Alexander Wiley, a member of the U.S. delegation, accused State of "willful blindness" in the matter, chided Lie for not looking into the employees' record on his own, and said that the U.S. might withhold money for U.N. unless a sound U.N. security plan is devised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Russian at the Back Door | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...suggested a joint statement backing the principle of "no forcible repatriation" of prisoners in the Korean war. Eisenhower, who has adopted the firm policy of setting his own course, declined the joint statement but promised to make his own views known. (Next day, through Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley, he "emphasized his agreement with the principle of no forcible repatriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Setting the Course | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Foreign Relations. Wisconsin's back-slapping Alexander Wiley, a self-described humorist, who was an ardent isolationist before Pearl Harbor, has now moved, thanks partly to his British-born bride, all the way to internationalism. He sees himself as a new Vandenberg; others see him merely as a new Wiley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Faces | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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