==================== HES POSTING ==================== 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 ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]