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Lieut General Wedemeyer has always been antiCommunist. He was anti-Communist during his earlier mission to China as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944 et seq.). His report on the Chinese situation could not be anything but antiCommunist, and probably favored U.S. aid to China. If so, it was big news to both countries. What (or who), Americans wondered last week, was holding up its publication...
Through the misty dawn, they could see the land they had fled in horror-Germany. Two months ago, they had left the Continent aboard a leaky old tub called Exodus '47, bound for Palestine (TIME, July 28 et seq.). Now they returned, aboard the Ocean Vigour and two other British transports, bound for German D.P. camps where the British had finally decided to take them. At 6:20, a loudspeaker asked the passengers to go ashore. On the battered Hamburg pier, the cordons of British troops and German police tensed...
President Truman last month asked the steel industry to "wait and see" before raising prices. The industry waited nine days, then one by one the major companies boosted prices an average of $5 to $7 a ton (TIME, Aug. 4 et seq.). This week, the Federal Trade Commission, headed by Chairman Garland S. Ferguson, cracked back on the industry. FTC charged steel with conspiracy to fix prices...
...will drop out of college." The two Garsson brothers appealed for mercy too. Henry Garsson made a speech; Murray Garsson wept softly. The Garssons had been convicted of giving May bribes of $53,000 while running a shoestring into a $78 million munitions combine (TIME, July 25, 1946 et seq.); all three faced maximum sentences of six years, fines of $30,000. Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut let them off with a minimum eight months, maximum two years; no fine...
After one hour and 50 minutes of deliberation, a federal jury last week convicted Munitions-Makers Murray and Henry Garsson and ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May on three counts of bribery and conspiracy to defraud the Government (TIME, July 15, 1946 et seq.). The maximum sentence for each count: a $10,000 fine, two years in jail...