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When the war started, Visser 't Hooft discovered that the smuggling of refugees to freedom combined naturally with the smuggling of information in and out of Holland for the Dutch government-in-exile in London. The apparatus' agents were equipped with microfilm in pens and with clandestine short-wave radio. His two sons remember with displeasure the furtive characters who were constantly turning up at the house, in Geneva; when one arrived, the children were always sent out of the living room-which during the war was the only heated room in the house. In those days...
...such facilities as the Harvard Observatory, located away form metropolitan areas, shelters should therefore be built, and perhaps Harvard should also try to preserve microfilm of a part of the priceless collections of the University's libraries and museums...
...over to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956, when preparations for editing had already been going on for two years, with support for editorial work from Life Magazine in return for first serial rights of publication. The entire archive, meanwhile, has been made available to historical scholars in a microfilm edition of 608 reels, sets of which are held by major research libraries across the country. The Massachusetts Historical Society, owner of the papers, has administrative and editorial responsibility for the Belknap Press edition as a whole...
...provisions of a family trust, the papers of all the Adamses were held in private until 1954, when they were turned over to the Massachusetts Historical Society. TIME Inc. contributed $250,000 to the project of editing the works, which turned out to cover more than five miles of microfilm. After six years of study, a team of scholars under American History Authority L. H. Butterfield begins publication with four volumes that contain the diary and autobiography of John Adams...
...Hiss counterattacked with a libel suit, Chambers finally introduced the charge of espionage, and supported his case with the nearly forgotten documents that he retrieved from his wife's nephew, who had stored them inside an unused dumb-waiter shaft. But even then, Chambers did not produce the microfilm-later he explained that he was afraid it might contain material that would damage other people. With characteristic melodrama, Chambers hid the film roll in a hollowed-out pumpkin in a field on his Maryland farm, surrendered it only when he became convinced that a committee counsel suspected...