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The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee has been interrogating a witness who was a member of a Communist apparatus that reached into the White House…. Bryton Barron’s exposé of the State Department (Inside the State Department), though praised by Clarence Manion, Fulton Lewis, John T. Flynn, and a few others, remains largely ignored by the metropolitan press. It is available for $3.00 from The Bookmailer (see ad., p. 93). Chapters from it first appeared in national review.

… Earl Attlee, on his two-week visit here, repeatedly advocated internationalization of the Panama Canal and U.S. recognition of Red China…. The Federal Bar Association has formally recommended easing the provision of the so-called Hiss Act under which any federal employee convicted of a felony is automatically stripped of his retirement benefits…. The CIO Textile Workers Union announces it will quit setting up industry-wide wage and benefit patterns and negotiate contracts on an individual company basis instead. In reversing the current trend, textile union officials admit they found conditions in the textile and worsted industries too disparate to warrant efficient industry-wide contracts…. The Agriculture Department estimates that a widely discussed proposed food-stamp plan (to reduce food surpluses by channeling them to the needy) could cost the government as much as $2.5 billion a year. The Department has not come out for or against the plan. M. The Navy, which at one time produced two million gallons of paint a year, reports that it has sold its paint plants in response to a recommendation of the Hoover Commission…. The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, a division of the University of Pennsylvania and a citadel of private enterprise, has invited as principal speaker for its 75th Anniversary celebration the British Socialist Fuehrer, Hugh Gaitskell.

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