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...seining through the wartime rolls of the Office of Strategic Services, the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee brought up a strange fish. He was George S. Wuchinich, who served as OSS liaison man with the Communist armies of Yugoslavia and China during the war, and achieved some postwar notoriety as pal of Red Boss Steve Nelson. In 1950 he was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee as one of 13 leading Communists in Pittsburgh...
...month since "Engine Charlie" Wilson's defense budget had been sent to Congress, the Eisenhower Administration had grown steadily more nervous over the violence of the opposition to the proposed $5 billion cut in Air Force appropriations. Major General "Jerry" Persons, the President's liaison man with Capitol Hill, had put in long hours trying to coax dissatisfied Congressmen back into line. Dwight Eisenhower himself had thrown the weight of his military prestige behind the air-power cut in a nationwide radio speech. Last week, fighting to stave off the possibility that Congress might decide to rewrite...
Drastic Impact. Meanwhile, by the simple device of phoning the Air Force Liaison Office on Capitol Hill, an obscure Congressman from Los Angeles, Samuel William Yorty, got a written statement from the Air Force knocking down some of Boss Wilson's arguments...
...member of the party's Politburo, Central Committee and Secretariat, Dahlem headed the East German military buildup, and was East Germany's liaison man to the Cominform. Only two German Communists were bigger: Party General Secretary Walter Ulbricht, who toppled him, and Security Boss Wilhelm Zaisser, who arrested him. His crimes: "Political blindness." He was also charged with having supported Czech Communist Leader Rudolf Slansky, executed as a traitor last year. Warned the official announcement: "The investigation is not over yet." The hyena was still hungry...
Rear Admiral John C. Daniel, chief of the U.N. liaison group, concluded that many hundreds of really sick and wounded allied prisoners were being left behind in the North Korean stockades. He called a liaison meeting one day to ask the Communists to increase their quotas. His opposite number, North Korea's Lee Sang Cho, had learned or guessed what was on Daniel's mind and, even before Daniel could make his request, voluntarily promised to increase the number of allied returnees. He did-by exactly...