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On 4 Nov 1997, Robert Leeson wrote: 
 
> According to  William Manchester (The Glory and the Dream, London: 
> Michael Joseph, 1973, 493-8): 
> 
> 1. The Executive Director of the IMF (Harry Dexter White) and 
> Roosevelt's special assistant (Lauchlin Currie) were accused of 
> treachery. 
 
(Brad DeLong replied briefly regarding Harry White only.) 
 
Roger Sandilands (U. Strathclyde, Glasgow) <[log in to unmask]> 
is the author of a comprehensive biography of Currie: 
    The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie : New Dealer, 
    Presidential Advisor and Development Economist (Duke UP, 1990) 
 
He tells me that White and Currie were close friends. 
 
> They appeared together, at their own insistence, before Richard Nixon of 
> HUAC to deny Elizabeth Bentley's charges in 1948. White had a serious 
> heart condition and he died 2 or 3 days later. Currie was sickened by the 
> way White was treated. I understand from Paul Samuelson that Stanley 
> Fischer has asked a historian at the IMF to look into the McCarthy 
> episode in relation to White and Currie. 
 
[Quoting Roger Sandilands with permission.  In fact, Roger has joined the 
list and I am posting this as an introduction for you and a point of entry 
for him to join the censorship thread midway.] 
 
Paul Wendt, Watertown MA 
Asst.editor, HES e-information services  
 
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