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Wisconsin's Republican Senator Alexander Wiley said last October that the Senate should investigate the Office of Alien Property's "super gravy train" for friends of the Truman Administration. He asked for details on fees paid by the ten largest firms under its jurisdiction. Last week Wiley got a partial report. It covered the biggest alien company held by the Government, the Nazi-controlled General Aniline and Film Corp., and its sales-distribution organization, General Dyestuff Corp. Interesting item: Louis Johnson (Harry Truman's campaign fund raiser in 1948, Defense Secretary...
...Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions by Authors Alfred Rosenberg, Joseph Goebbels and Ernst Roehm; a German translation of Henry Ford's My Life and Work, inscribed by piano-thumping Ernst ("Putzi") Hanf-staengl, "Mit alien besten Wunschen fur 1924." Price...
...declared that Finnish citizens, e.g., Jean Sibelius, who had been unable to renew their U.S. copyrights during the war (Sibelius' publishers were German), might now do so. As soon as he files the necessary papers, Composer Sibelius stands to collect the back-performance royalties which the Office of Alien Property has been holding...
...Yale" is an Alien-Wonderland book. It lauds laissez-faire economics, deplores laissez-faire education. It preaches religious tolerance but says that there is only one true religion. It weaves its value judgments and quotes-out-of-context into a superficially strong case for the narrowest sort of indoctrination. It is convincing enough so that Yale alumni, reading it, may reject Buckley's logic but still be perturbed a little at his picture of what the old school is teaching. They needn't worry. Bill Buckley went there for four years, and it didn't affect...
...Good. "[The treaty] contains . . . imperfections . . . [But] there come times when to seek the perfect is to lose the good . . . It was our common hope that, out of the fiery purge of war, there would rise a new Japan . . . Dignity cannot be developed by those who are subject to alien control . . . Self-respect is not felt by those who have no rights of their own . . . Fellowship is not the mood of peoples who are denied fellowship . . . No nation is bound to sign the treaty . . . The only compulsion is the moral compulsion of grave circumstances. They unite...