Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American criticism has been more violent, if anything, than that of the English and French, with the most telling blows coming from Brooks Atkinson and Walter Lippmann. In a series of three articles, Atkinson, whose dispatches from China pinpointing the treachery and rottenness of the Kuomintang were among the most notable jobs of newspaper reporting of the past year, has assailed the Russians from all sides, cultural, political, and moral. If Lippmann is not as liberal as Atkinson, at least he is as fair-mindeed, and his interpretation of Molotov's speech constitutes the most damaging attack yet sustained...
...dispassionate, objective but hardhitting assessment of the Soviet regime last fortnight (TIME, July15), Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times made one point (among many completely valid ones) which may have been slightly in error. He said: "Although they [the Soviet leaders] have access to an enormous mass of information from abroad, they lack the experience to analyze...
...outside criticism are most damaging, and which are least so. The Stalinists ignore, or pass off with an occasional snarl, the tirades of chronic Russophobes in the U.S. (usually lumped together as "the Hearst-Patterson-McCormick press"), knowing that their hysteria and exaggeration diminish their influence. But since Atkinson's effort was a fair-minded piece for fair-minded readers of an extremely influential paper, the Moscow puppet press exploded...
Pravda's No.1 hatchet man, David Zaslavsky, came out swinging savagely. He tried to pin on Atkinson the practice (Pravda's own practice, incidentally) of reckless and scurrilous fiction-mongering. He portrayed him as a "commercial traveler" for a typical capitalist newspaper enterprise, whose only job was to produce, by fabrication or distortion, the sort of news his bosses wanted to print...
Married. Colonel Anthony Joseph ("Tony") Drexel Biddle Jr., 49, dapper ex-playboy, prewar U.S. Ambassador to Poland, now Allied contact officer at U.S. headquarters in Europe; and Margaret Atkinson Loughborough, 32, a Canadian and former UNRRA worker; both for the third time; in Frankfurt, Germany...