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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manning Johnson's testimony struck a sharp blow for the Government in its effort to prove Harry Bridges had lied at his naturalization proceedings in 1945, when he denied he was or ever had been a Communist. When Johnson stepped down, the U.S. trotted out ex-Communist No. 6 from its stable of witnesses. Paul Crouch, a tall, black-haired Miami newsman who had spent 17 years in the party, backed up much of what Manning Johnson had said, added that he had heard a party leader in 1938 recommend Bridges for another term on the national committee although...
...Judge Ryan felt differently about it. He gave the Government until this week to produce sworn affidavits from the 23 FBI agents involved in the case and offered the defense a chance to cross-examine any or all of them if they desired. Unless the U.S. could prove that its indictment was built on other, untainted evidence, the spy trial would be crossed off the calendar...
...that the vast standardization project had been formally approved. "Tripartite arrangements," said the announcement, "will insure that in time of necessity there will be no material or technical obstacles to full co-operation among the armed forces concerned." Successful standardization, in the framework of the North Atlantic pact, might prove one of the most momentous steps in Western military history...
...Soekarno and his inexperienced government should prove unable to fill the vacuum which the end of the white man's rule had left behind in Indonesia, the Communists stood ready to rush in. In U.N.'s Security Council, they provided a clue to their attitude toward Indonesia. The Council wanted to dispatch felicitations to the Indonesians, the Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages...
Wallach has been attempting to prove, for the past two weeks, that St. Benedict's Center, headed by Father Feeney, has no right to GI Bill funds. According to the State Department of Education, an educational institution must meet four criteria for certification. Wallach claims that St. Benedict's fails in one of these--the criterion of academic fitness of its teaching staff...