Edward R. Murrow Quotes
We believe that the son shall not bear the iniquities of the father, even if the charges of the father can be proved true.]
Lieutenant Redulivitch, an Air Force officer, was discharged from the Air Force on the grounds that he was a security risk. The Air Force stated that they had no reason to question his loyalty, but that the Lieutenant’s father read communist literature and associated with suspected communists, but refused to provide any evidence to the press, the Lieutenant or the father. The quotation illustrates the degree that McCarthyism and the Red Scare had twisted the national security apparatus of the nation.
Edward R. Murrow, 1908-1965, Journalist, Director, United States Information Agency, CBS Broadcast on the Milo Redulivitch case
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Up until 1970 many Australian Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and “adopted” or brought up in institutions to “civilize” them. In 1997 the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission found the practice “genocidal.”
Vasilii Ivanovich Belavin. head of the church. Because he was responsible for the Russian Orthodox Church in North America, he developed the complementary title of ‘Enlightener Of America’
Although he was personally not involved with the worst of the atrocities, he not only financed most of the German aggression and he accepted and used the gold fillings for the German Bank that were taken from the murdered concentration camp victims. See {633537}.
The security system at Los Alamos while the atomic bomb was being developed was absurd. Scientists from all over the country had to be hired quickly. Many of them had friends and relatives who had various left-wing associations; some came from Germany or had German connections. A number of the key scientists were German refugees from Hitler's persecution. The military security people, using their traditional standards, would not clear people if they had any left wing friends or associates or they came from Europe and there were no records to prove that they were not fascists or communists. Most of the refugees got out with their lives and had no records, but they were among the best scientists in the world. J Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director, and General Leslie Groves needed the scientists as the work had to be done. Groves approved important personnel for hire pending security clearance which never came and which Groves knew would never come. Nonetheless the people were working by the time intelligence officers outside the project realized what was going on. People without clearance had some of the most sensitive jobs at Los Alamos. Not a single one of those people turned out to be a security risk or a spy. There was a spy however who had come the English scientific delegation, but the security people had cleared him. Barnett however, as Oppenheimer’s personal assistant had access to almost everything having to do with the development of the bomb. She never did get cleared for her job.
Edward Roscoe Murrow, born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
