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...made his dramatic proposal, the pamphlet had originally been intended to clarify the policy of the Labor Party, which had been divided on the issue of Western European federation. By the time the drafting committee got through with it, the small group favoring federation had been silenced. The finished document bore the arrogant, doctrinaire mark of its chief author, Minister of Town & Country Planning Hugh Dalton, whose bumbling indiscretions had gotten him and his government into trouble before...
Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator to the eleventh floor and there, by what Bielaski later called "deceit and subterfuge," entered Amerasia's office. Once inside, they began a careful inspection. They found one room fitted out with photocopy equipment, a desk in another room spread with copies of Government documents. Behind a door were...
...were floundering in a Communist-led nationalist uprising. They appealed to Bao Dai to come home again and help rally his people against the Red menace. They promised to grant Viet Nam gradual independence within the new French Union. Bao was persuaded. On March 8, 1949, he signed the document creating the new Indo-Chinese Republic which he would head as chief of state. As he left the gaudy safety of the Riviera for the hazards of a country torn by civil war, he grinned and said: "I risk my skin." French Communists snarled: "Cet empereur des boites de nuit...
Boyd needed that document and he was glad to go through tribal protocol to get it. As editor of the projected 52-volume Papers of Thomas Jefferson, he was reaching for everything that Thomas Jefferson ever wrote...
...down in a solemn, elm-shaded circle near Ponca City, Okla., and received a delegation of white men. As the ceremonies began, Moses Harragara, an elder of the tribe, handed a copy of a manuscript to the boss white man, Princeton Librarian Julian P. Boyd. It was no ordinary document. President Thomas Jefferson had written it and handed it personally to Oto Chief Standing Buffalo in Washington in 1806. Librarian...