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...nature writer." His short essay was published and sowed broadcast in the U.S. by fanatical anarchists of the Emma Goldman period without any effect whatever on our affairs. Not until the essay fell into the hands of Gandhi did the seed sprout to shake the British Empire. OTTO McFEELY Oak Park...
...last week the New York Sun stumbled across something. In three-bank headlines, it announced that "unknown agents" had stolen atom-bomb secrets from the Oak Ridge plant. The quick-to-panic became panicky. Cried New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas: "We must take drastic steps." In the Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper rose to say that, as chairman of AEC, he had "no reason to believe" that anything had been stolen from Oak Ridge. But, said he, there was something he should mention. He revealed the Los Alamos theft...
...scare story about the theft of certain A-bomb files. Statements issued late by Senators Hickenlooper and McMahon indicate that the Sun, foe one reason or another, had printed erroneous facts leading to an equally erroneous conclusion. Whereas the Sun reported that secret data was removed from files at Oak Ridge after they had been entrusted to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission, the truth seems to be that the papers were lifted from Los Alamos by Army personnel at a time when the Army was in full control of security measures...
...five pending bills designed to do away with the Atomic Energy Commission. Another implacable foe of the Commission is J. Parnell Thomas who operates by the subtler procedure of periodically releasing stories relating how the Patent Office has given Russia all our atomic know-how, or that an Oak Ridge employee has a wife who works for the Soviet Embassy...
...issue was one which troubled many a U.S. schoolmaster, and many a parent. In Royal Oak, Principal Marks was damned by some parents as harsh and hasty. But a few supported him. Said Lawyer Gilbert Davis: "My 16-year-old daughter and I knew it was illegal. I drove her home from the initiation when she reeked from the cheese they rubbed in her hair, and I gave her $12 for the pin. I let her do it because there's enough snob in me to be proud when my daughter gets into something exclusive. It was wrong...