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...Correspondents, his book traces the astounding growth of the Washington press corps from the period when two Congressional stenographers served as part-time reporters, to the present when more than 500 elite newsmen enjoy semiofficial status. It does not spare correspondents' vanities and irresponsibilities nor "official efforts to conceal the unpalatable truth." Some of Delbert Clark's anecdotes and observations...
...friends below the Rio Grande must be amazed to see, in this day and age of national feeling and national propaganda, an American paper broadcasting the seamy side of its own country." These arguments posed a major issue of whether anything is to be gained from trying to conceal facts about the U.S. from friendly nations. But this big issue hardly concerns TIME'S Air-Express edition, whose primary purpose is to keep 50,000 American citizens stationed in Latin America in touch with what is going on at home...
...France. It is necessary for her to choose between life and death. The Marshal and the Government have chosen life." When it was over it seemed apparent that Admiral Darlan had put more weight on the word "sovereignty" than it could possibly bear. If it was his intention to conceal France's rapid motion toward de facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being "alone," was enjoying a good part of France's agricultural and industrial output and the military...
...that time his announced plans for the elimination of France's "capitalist hierarchies" have remained mere blueprints, while his proposed bans on labor unions, strikes and protests are in force today. He has developed an aptitude for sonorous political pronouncements whose vague and lofty words do little to conceal their totalitarian direction...
...possibility of reducing the enormous gap of perhaps $20,000,000,000 between expected revenues and expected expenditures by cutting unnecessary though popular expenditures was only lightly explored at budget-time and has since been forgotten. Most agencies of the Government had done their best to conceal the existence of such expenditures. This year practically every expense, for whatever purpose, is labeled "for defense." Wrote Newshawk Smith wisely: "Cupidity is the handmaiden of national defense, or vice versa...