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...United Press war correspondent, lean, handsome Charles P. Arnot saw plenty of battles. He watched the sinking of the U.S.S. Hornet, covered the battle of Guadalcanal and the invasion of Guam. Last week, Newsman Arnot, 33, was in the thick of a different battle. As director of Amerika-Dienst, news and feature service of the U.S. High Commission in Germany, he was passing the ammunition to German newspapers in the cold war against Russian propaganda...
This week in Stuttgart, McCloy spoke before an audience of 1,400 at the opening of a new Amerika-Haus. His speech was a milestone in the development of the U.S. attitude toward Germany. Said McCloy...
Before 1950 was over, the black, red and gold flag of the West German Federal Republic would fly from masts on the seven seas. Commenting on the amazingly swift change in Hamburg's mood, a Hamburg-Amerika Line official said: "I guess that we just decided we'd been in the restaurant business long enough...
...Hamburg-Amerika Line has been paying pensions to 2,000 of its old employees. To keep going, the line has resorted to all kinds of makeshifts-it tied the bombed passenger-freighter St. Louis to a dock, ran it as a restaurant-hotel. It has also been operating a mail-order agency, a resort hotel, an insurance company and a fleet of harbor tugs...
Nobody knows exactly why Moscow jams Voice of America broadcasts, yet permits the Russians to listen freely to the voice of Amerika. But Editor Sanders has a hunch. Says she: "We never preach, brag, quarrel or draw invidious comparison^ Ours is not a frontal attack; it is a loYig-range campaign." The campaign's major objective: to cast on Russian minds at least the shadow of a doubt about Communism's superiority. Recently Pravda and Izvestia assailed Amerika. Says Editor Sanders happily: "That means we must be getting read...