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...showed considerably more awareness of what the bomb meant to humanity, in good and evil. But a few weeks later he was again treating it with an oddly offhand air. He chose a fishing lodge at Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake, an informal "bull session" with newsmen against a background of bourbon and poker, to announce that the U.S. intended to keep the secret of the bomb to itself...
...first glance Ed Pauley seemed like a doubtful choice-there could not fail to be bitter debate over his heading a department which controls so much of the nation's oil reserves. He knew little about the Navy. But big, energetic Ed Pauley had a broad background of achievement in private life-he had founded an oil company, directed a bank, helped operate a big construction company. And he had done a shrewd, sound job for the President in sizing up the reparations picture in Germany and Japan. Harry Truman liked him and trusted him; but some...
Orders Is Orders. In the background...
...needed a shove was impressive. On the biggest, control of the atom, London heard that the talks were going well. But no statesman had quite faced the fact that atomic control presupposes that international inspection will prove both technically and politically possible. The Russian character and the semi-conspiratorial background of the Soviet regime were against easy acceptance of any inspection scheme. There was a good chance that a plan of agreement would be drafted in Moscow, but the odds on real atomic control in 1946 stayed remote...
Granting its semi-farcical intentions, The French Touch makes only the sleaziest use of its troubled background, never gives its comic action any tragic edge...