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Morize spent last year as the head of the French Bureau of North American Propaganda after he was stranded in Paris at the outbreak of hostilities. His bureau translated articles from French periodicals and speeches by French statesmen in order to send them to this country...
Caldwell, a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean, has covered the T.V.A., public utilities and government agencies. For the past three years Crider has been at the New York Times Bureau in Washington, covering economic and financial aspects of the federal government...
...last fall when the war began, Crane-Baker, who would have been a Sophomore had he returned to college then, began immediately to serve the Allies in any capacity which he could fill. His jobs ranged from machine gunner in a Finish bombing plane to translator in the French bureau of North American Propaganda, and he ended his year's career with an amazing Odyssey which carried him through Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy, and German-occupied France before he arrived at Lisbon and the Atlantic Clipper...
...Foreign Legion at the outset of the struggle, but as an American citizen he encountered difficulties which made it impossible for him to enlist. Balked in this first attempt to serve, he spent five months in Paris first working under Andre Morize, professor of Romance Languages, in the Propaganda Bureau, and then working for the Czech National Committee...
Last week, from Bulgaria, Correspondent Gedye had some interesting things to say about the system that had cost him his latest post. When the censorship went into effect on Jan. 1 the Russian Press Bureau clamped down with a bang, suppressing even such messages as "Censor will not allow this story to be sent." All unfavorable facts about Russia were promptly deleted from press wires, together with any comments or interpretation, any qualifying clauses crediting hypotheses to "the Soviet point of view." Even excerpts from the local press were erased if they hinted that all was not milk & honey...