INVESTIGATIONS: Not One Iota

Seventeen months after the career of Army Dentist Irving Peress became a public issue, the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations last week issued its report on the case. The subcommittee found what had been obvious from the first (TIME, March 8, 1954): the promotion and honorable discharge of Major Peress, after he refused to answer questions about Communist affiliations, was entwined in red tape, not in Red subversion.

"Individual errors in judgment, lack of proper coordination, ineffective administrative procedures, inconsistent application of investigating regulations, and excessive delays," were the subcommittee's words...

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