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...Facts are These. The real Montgomery comes out in his crisp memos. "The amount of paper in circulation is simply terrific." Montgomery complains, "It is not possible for any sane man to read more than half of it. And the other half isn't worth reading." He himself peppers his people with brief machine-gun bursts of confident prose. One sentence makes a paragraph. the two favorite marks of punctuation are the colon and period. A typical beginning: "Let us look at the facts: the facts are these." He sent a memo to British officers at SHAPE...
...Chambers told Adolf A. Berle, then Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, about his cell and its operations. Berle circulated a confidential memo to high officials describing Chambers' charges; apparently it, received scant attention or belief since many of those named continued to rise in power...
...been able to afford a new building for 35 years. Then the board of trustees began asking various university heads to recommend a man who might make a good president. At Columbia University, McCann read the letter addressed to his boss, and sent it along with a scrawled memo: "A good candidate for this job occupies the adjoining room to you. Will you recommend...
Business as Usual. On Oct. 5, Strauss sent a memo to Chairman Lilienthal recommending all-out effort on the superbomb. The Atomic Energy Act had set up a General Advisory Committee of scientists to advise the President and AEC on scientific matters. Strauss urged that the GAC be called into special session to advise the commission how to proceed. On Oct. 29, the GAC met in a regularly scheduled session. After one day's deliberation, it reported its recommendation: the U.S. should not try to build a thermonuclear bomb...
...Meanwhile, the Communist truce negotiators came scrambling back to Panmunjom to see what the U.N. had to offer in the way of guarantees. At the first meeting since Rhee liberated the anti-Communist North Koreans last month, the truce hut was stifling hot. The U.N. delegates fanned themselves with memo pads, and mopped their faces with soggy handkerchiefs; the Reds simply sat and sweated in their heavy uniforms. The proceedings were secret. The first session lasted only three minutes, but it was followed by another longer one, and by a third next day. A truce, if all went well...