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...Western press, which never seems to agree on anything, might take a lesson from the Communist press, which never seems to disagree on anything. Specifically, she would like Western correspondents to establish a committee to decide on a common line to follow. Her choice for chairman: Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop, whose gloomy columns on South Viet Nam have generally mirrored Diem's line. "He fully understands the situation here," said Madame Ngo. When her guest politely replied that neither he nor his colleagues always agreed with Columnist Alsop, Madame Ngo showed her best feminist style. "Well," said...
This nagging query was made last week, not by a Kennedy critic, but by a Kennedy loyalist and personal friend, the New York Herald Tribune's Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop. Alsop's "yes, but" answer demonstrated the difficulty he had in answering his own question. He offered no evidence that criticism of the Kennedy Administration is widespread, but he did not hesitate to explain why such criticism should exist. The President's trouble, wrote Alsop, is that he gets too much advice: "With the most terrible choices being daily thrust upon him, Kennedy is daily beset...
Fear & Firmness. Fact is that press criticism of the President has never been a sometime thing. It is one of the persistent realities of life in the loftiest and most vulnerable public office. In recent weeks, others besides Joe Alsop have indeed accused the President of wavering, indecision, and of failing to deliver on the glittering promise of strong leadership that surrounded the figure of Jack Kennedy early in office...
...will not stop because it cannot." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Marquis Childs wondered if the "world will survive," pinned his personal hopes on the U.S.'s new disarmament agency-a small-bore institution ($10,000,000 to work with) as yet unborn. Chronically gloomy Joe Alsop warned his readers to face the unpalatable truth: "For the first time in America, one or two voices are beginning to be heard, arguing that what ought to be done is to surrender. Their arguments will not commend themselves to many Americans; yet what may be called the practical, political...
...import the works he wanted. "As simple as importing Polish hams," he said. The rest of the display he gathered from a variety of shrewd U.S. collectors, including Pittsburgh's G. David Thompson. Manhattan's Joseph Hirshhorn, and the world's Joe Alsop, who bought early in the rising Polish art market...