Word: burkart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...censorship prevent Chicago Daily Newsman Beech from getting out the week's most sensational story from Tokyo. He cabled that "authoritative sources" had told him that General MacArthur had recommended to Washington that the U.S. withdraw from Korea. When Beech first showed the story to Colonel Esher C. Burkart, chief of MacArthur's press "advisory" division, Colonel Burkart tore up the first two pages. Then Beech took another copy to Colonel Echols who, after suggesting a few qualifying changes, approved it. But when the story got a front-page play in many U.S. papers, Colonel Echols flatly branded...