Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blasts usually engage Pravda's old (64), red-faced, always-angry David Iosifovitch Zaslavsky (among his targets: Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst). Last week Triggerman Zaslavsky turned his howitzer on the New York Times''s big gun of military reportage and analysis, Hanson Weightman Baldwin. Comrade Zaslavsky called him "Admiral of an Ink Pool...
...documented indictment (citing Baldwin's columns), Zaslavsky charged the foremost U.S. newspaper military expert (which he dislikes to be called) with disbelieving Soviet information, falling for Nazi misinformation. The major Zaslavsky counts: 1) prediction in 1941 of the Red Army's quick defeat; 2) assurance in September, 1942, of the Wehrmacht's victory without doubt; 3) assertions at 1944's start that Russian triumphs were due to the German necessity for great reserves in the west; 4) most recently, assertion that the Germans would hold Odessa, while Red Army columns were even then closing...
...Hanson Baldwin's line at this week's start: "The great retreat in Southern Russia-one of the greatest in history-seems to be coming...
...Commentator Baldwin is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate (1924), served three years with the U.S. Fleet...
...Under Secretary Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with muggin') and Robert Arthur James Cecil, Viscount Cran-borne, Dominions Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords. Stooped, willowy, witty Lord Cranborne and Eden were known as the "Foreign Office Twins" when they worked together in the governments of Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Their views were so close together that when Eden quit as Foreign Secretary in 1938 in protest against appeasement, Lord Cranborne, his Under Secretary, followed with outspoken approval. Nothing since has ruptured their teamwork. The sensitive hands of Lord Cranborne would pay out the Eden line with...