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==================== HES POSTING ====================
On 4 Nov 1997, Robert Leeson wrote:
> According to William Manchester (The Glory and the Dream, London:
> Michael Joseph, 1973, 493-8):
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> 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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