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...majority's "yes" was firm and unequivocal, but regretful and full of understanding of what "yes" would mean to Dr. Oppenheimer, to the legions of Oppenheimer partisans, and to the other legions who would read only the headlines. Moreover, they said "yes" the hard way; they absolved Physicist Oppenheimer of any charges of present-day disloyalty, or of any "attachment to the Soviet Union"; they commended his "high degree of discretion, reflecting an unusual ability to keep to himself vital secrets." Their verdict lay in a new and carefully reasoned proposition: beyond loyalty and discretion lie certain harsh requirements...
...Glass Works), who got into a headline row in 1948 with a House investigating subcommittee after the subcommittee called him "one of the weakest links" in the U.S. security chain. Early in the atomic program, Oppenheimer got a job at the University of California Radiation Laboratory for a young physicist with a known Communist background, one Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. In 1943 the Army notified Lomanitz that he was to be drafted. Dr. Condon wrote Oppenheimer about this, as Oppenheimer put it, "in a great sense of outrage." Oppenheimer protested Lomanitz draft call (to no avail), and later tried...
...caliber urgently needed here. Charles P. Schwartz, teaching fellow at the Law School, after comprehensive study of immigration laws, points out that "The United States needs the services of students who have special abilities. Yet under the present law, a foreign scholar, even a nuclear physicist, may be denied permission to stay here because of the irrelevancy that he was born in a low quota country. Regardless of his high aptitude, he 'chose' the wrong antecedents...
...Washington correspondents, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's troubles with the Atomic Energy Commission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had been no secret. For more than four months, capital newsmen had been picking up bits of the story, but no one could nail it all down. New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James B. Reston went to work to do so. Instead of trying to run it down through Government bureaus, "Scotty" Reston went directly to the one man who was sure to know, Oppenheimer himself...
...newspapers all over the U.S. played up two Page One news stories, both from a "high Administration official." One story reported that he said the U.S. may throw troops into Indo-China if the French pull out, while the other quoted the anonymous official's opinion that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "is a loyal American" and should not be barred from Government work if he is not a security risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...