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After six years' distinguished covering of the European radio beat, Murrow was well qualified to speak. His biweekly newscasts have helped make the war clearer to hosts of Americans. Now he is concerned with radio's role in the peace. He thinks that Versailles might have been different if its proceedings had been widely and quickly broadcast. He hopes to have a trained staff and enough freedom from censorship to provide swift, sure coverage of the next peace conference...
...through most of the seven shows a day, chewing chocolate bars and put-up lunches. Some had passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...
...home front, Davis can be no better than the Administration. On the foreign front, he can be no better than his nation's foreign policy. He has not yet made U.S. war aims sound much clearer than the foggy Atlantic Charter; he cannot be blamed for being unable to explain what the State Department is up to in North Africa...
...Author Dos Passes had given clearer reasons why men of Tyler's intelligence work for the world's Chuck Crawfords; if he had shown behind his sharply observed surfaces more of the intricate counterpoint of political machinery in action; if he had made the danger implicit in Chuck's kind-and Tyler's-more edged and more explicit; if he had not skidded into regrettable Sandburg-&-ketchup prose poetry this could have been a much better book. Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street...
Commander in Excelsis. But the key to Russia's military determination is the man who is key to everything in Russia. If Russia's allies knew as much about Joseph Stalin as he knows about them, they would have a much clearer idea of where he stands. The few U.S. and British diplomats and officers who have talked with Stalin say that he knows more than most Washington and London officials about Allied performance, personalities and weaknesses. He has on the end of his blunt tongue the exact dates of and reasons for the fall of Bataan, Corregidor...