Word: burchett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prospect. In Fuquay-Varina, N.C. E. T. Burchett, auto salesman, explained to police why he chased an armed bandit who had just robbed a bank of $12,000: "I wanted to sell him a car and I knew he had some money...
...Prospect. In Fuquay-Varina, N.C., E. T. Burchett, auto salesman, explained to police why he chased an armed bandit who had just robbed a bank of $12,000: "I wanted to sell him a car and I knew he had some money...
Among the 1,000 newsmen covering the Geneva Conference last week was London and Manhattan Communist Daily Worker Correspondent Wilfred Burchett. Australian-born Correspondent Burchett was last seen by Western newsmen in Korea, where he worked as a Red propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated...
Communist Correspondents Alan Winnington and Wilfred Burchett, serving as stage managers, did their best to liven the proceedings: "Hi. Al. Hello, Dick, how's everything?" But as prisoner after prisoner stood before the TV and newsreel came:as. each repeated the same, dull set piece: "We believe that our greatest task is to keep the peace and win democracy for our people, but if we return, our voices would be silenced. That is why we are here...
...places that had once been home to the men on Burchett's list, the reaction was the same wrenching disbelief. "We don't believe it . . ." "It just couldn't be." "They're holding him against his will." In Alden, Minn., the mother of Pfc. Richard Tenneson, 21, told reporters, "If I could talk to him for ten minutes, I could at least make a dent in that kind of thinking." Mr. & Mrs. Van Buren Dickenson, the parents of Corporal Edward Dickenson, 23, sat in stunned sadness in their home in Cracker's Neck, Va. like...