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TIME (Dec. 26) had reported that the French army's Chief of General Staff Georges Marie Joseph Revers had been relieved of duty because of a leak of French political secrets to IndoChina's Communists. For three weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not a word. A few French newspapers hinted at serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire...
...Counter-Leaks. The Secretary neglected his usual polite greeting when he faced the press, bluntly began: "I am having this conference . . . at the request and at the direction of the President." The precipitate performance on the Formosa question, as he explained it, had been necessary because "this subject has become one of the foremost subjects of discussion throughout the country . . . We have had leak and counter-leak, gossip and counter-gossip . . . and therefore it was the President's desire to clarify the situation...
Actually not leak and gossip, but the hard core of fact and opposition behind them had become intolerably embarrassing for the Administration. The facts: 1) the Joint Chiefs had decided, only to be reversed, that the U.S. should help deny Formosa to the Communists by methods successfully used in Greece; 2) Britain's decision to recognize the Chinese Communists (see INTERNATIONAL) appeared to have put the U.S.-British alignment askew; 3) a Tokyo dispatch reported that the State Department had blithely advised its staff by memo-on Dec. 23, before the President had made his own decision-to play...
...impinging on their wave-lengths, and only one, quickly-remedied complaint has been received from a listener. The radiation regulation is intended merely to confine a coaxial cable system, such as WHRB's, to the small area it serves. But even if WHRB's signals do leak outside of University property, they cannot reach enough persons to offer significant competition to licensed commercial stations...
...foot ditch currently disrupting traffic at the intersection of Cambridge and Broadway Streets, opposite Memorial Hall, will be gone by tonight. Workmen today were filling in the excavation after repairing a leak in a five-inch pipe which returns condensed water from the Rindge Tech heating system...