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Alger Hiss, 49, went to Washington as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, was an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta, and was secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco Conferences which gave birth to the United Nations. Against this bright star of the New Deal, Whittaker Chambers made a shocking accusation: Hiss was a Communist. Hiss challenged Chambers to make his charges without immunity. Chambers did, and they were tested in court. Hiss is now in the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg...
...three days this week Dwight Eisenhower, President of the most powerful republic in the world, played host to the President of Panama, one of the world's smallest. In the same C-54, the Sacred Cow, that flew Roosevelt to Yalta, José Antonio Remón and his attractive wife Cecilia reached Washington with only a few hours to spare before a presidential dinner in their honor. They were to spend the night in the White House, then move across Pennsylvania Avenue to Blair House and a round of wreath-laying, receptions and a return banquet...
...endorsed the Bricker Amendment. Last week Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Boston to stick his head in the lion's mouth. In packed John Hancock Hall, Dulles told the A.B.A. assembly that the Bricker Amendment "would set the clock back to ... the Articles of Confederation." * Yalta and Potsdam, Dulles conceded, were executive agreements-but so was the Korean armistice. Said the Secretary of State: "I do not admit that because power can be abused, it follows that power should be annulled...
...mayor, later became the leading New Dealer among Democratic city bosses ("I'm for anything Roosevelt is for"). When National Committee Chairman Jim Farley resigned in 1940 in protest against the third term, Ed Flynn reluctantly took over for almost three years, was rewarded with trips to Yalta, Moscow and the Vatican as a wartime presidential envoy. In 1947 he wrote a candid analysis of his political methods, You're the Boss, in which he declared: "The only way to win elections year after year is to know what the voters want and give it to them...
...Ministry of Internal Affairs prepared Beria's arrest? If the tradition of the service holds, it may well have been his successor: clam-faced Colonel General Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov, long a liaison man between the ministry and the Kremlin. At Yalta and Potsdam, Kruglov set up the protection screen which surrounded the Big Three,-was one of the very few who had free access to Stalin's quarters. At the San Francisco Conference, turned out in a blue serge suit and broad-toed shoes, he was Molotov's bodyguard. Although Kruglov's police career dates from...