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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extremely happy to see your item about the Sad Sacks. I have spent some time around mental hospitals and prisons where I "accidentally" had access to files of psychiatric diagnosis. Uhler's note on the "Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase" would be a kind way to state the chaotic, uncritical "diagnosis" of psychiatrists in general...
...unity in the face of the small powers' rebellion. Actually, the cleavage between Russia and the West was as deep as ever. Evatt was not only fighting for the little nations but also against Russia. The Soviets did make two important concessions: 1) the press will have access to all Conference meetings; 2) the agenda will be open to any additional points connected with the peace treaties. In turn, Jimmy Byrnes supported Russia's demand for a rotating Big Four chairmanship (said Byrnes: "My friend Mr. Molotov feels strongly about this. . . . I want to go along...
...joker into the Hungary and Rumania treaties; it can keep "such armed forces as it may need for maintenance of lines of communication of the Red Army with the Soviet zone of occupation in Austria." (Meanwhile, the Russians refuse even to consider peace with Austria.) Although the easiest access to Austria for the U.S. and Britain is through the Adriatic, the Western powers did not reserve the right to keep "lines of communication" troops in Italy. They will supply their Austrian occupation forces by long, cumbersome routes through Germany...
...dispassionate, objective but hardhitting assessment of the Soviet regime last fortnight (TIME, July15), Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times made one point (among many completely valid ones) which may have been slightly in error. He said: "Although they [the Soviet leaders] have access to an enormous mass of information from abroad, they lack the experience to analyze...
...soon as the U.F.W.A. was born, in a 1937 merger of A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions. Communist-picked switchboard operators and secretaries were slipped in; they became the basis of an efficient espionage system. A sympathetic secretary-treasurer and educational director were maneuvered into office to give Communists access to union finances and membership rolls, control of union newspapers...