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These were sweeping decisions, some of which will continue to affect the U.S. people and their allies for years to come. In many ways they proved an organizational grasp of the workings of the Pentagon which none of Engine Charlie's predecessors in office had ever shown. To all appearances, Wilson had established more effective control than James Forrestal (September 1947 to March 1949), more cooperation than ham-handed Louis Johnson (April 1949 to September 1950), better discipline than Old Soldier George Marshall (September 1950 to September 1951), and greater loyalty from his top civilian assistants than even affable...
Since the army's abortive revolt in September 1951, the country has been, by presidential decree, in a "state of internal war." While this does not affect the ordinary businessman or worker who keeps his mouth shut, it has a very real meaning for people suspected of being enemies of Perón. It means that the police may legally arrest any resident of Argentina and hold him indefinitely, without ever bringing any charge against him. (There are now an estimated 80,000 cops in Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large...
Physicist Wendell H. Furry, who refused to tell the Velde committee whether he had been a Communist before March 1, 1951. Actually, said the Corporation, he was a member until 1947. Even so, he "at no time permitted his connection with the party to affect his teaching, nor has he attempted otherwise to influence the political thinking of his students." One incident, however, did seem "grave misconduct" in the Corporation's eyes: as an officer of the American Association of Scientific Workers, "he told an investigating agent in 1944 that he had no reason to believe an applicant...
...toward expansion and development of human potentialities in the planetary community, but toward status quo preservation; regardless of what 'objective study and conscientious investigation' may suggest. Education for freedom and mature adulthood is obviously not compatible with an inflexible socio-cultural milieu hostile to all change which might affect its structural lineaments...
...Will Not Affect College...