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...Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, recently surveyed the reaction of U.S. critics to a new book by an Australian author (Chester Wilmot's The Struggle for Europe-TIME, March 31). "Since TIME magazine is the most influential book page in the country," Cooke said, "it is safe to assume that several million Americans who will never read the book have already taken instruction in how they ought to feel if they...
International Understanding: The Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, whose Letter from America broadcasts to BBC have made him a "one-man intercultural movement...
Meet the Press (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Britain's Anthony Eden faces Newsmen Marquis Childs, Alistair Cooke and Herbert Matthews...
Most foreign correspondents are attracted to Washington as irresistibly as iron filings to a magnet. Not so Alistair Cooke, 42, author (A Generation on Trial) and chief U.S. correspondent of England's famed Manchester Guardian. ". . . Washington may be the best place to watch how the Government sees the foreign news," Cooke wrote recently, "[but] it is possibly the worst place to watch how America sees the world...
...James Burnham's The Coming Defeat of Communism, which blueprinted a strategy for Western victory with the brilliant assurance of a man who could say "I was wrong" or "I told you so" with equal blandness. In a time when treason and charges of treason were becoming commonplace, Alistair Cooke's report on the Hiss-Chambers case, A Generation on Trial, was a conscientious and uncommonly well written courtroom report, but its title was a misnomer that suggested indulgence toward traitors...