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Naming Parents. One of the strongest advocates of a tougher policy is Publisher Richard H. Amberg of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Until last December, his paper (circ. 300,375) was as careful as the Post-Dispatch (402,439) not to identify delinquents. Then three 16-year-old boys raped a 14-year-old girl. Amberg not only ran their names but wrote an editorial saying: "We feel that if somebody is old enough to rape a girl, he is old enough to get his name in the paper...
During Fryer's fortnight in Budapest, Worker readers saw only one of his dispatches, a wishy-washy interview with a British Communist living in Hungary. In his letter of resignation, published by the Worker when he threatened to "seek other means" of getting out the truth, Fryer disclosed that the dispatch had been heavily cut and two others had been killed altogether. Reason: they showed that Soviet intervention was "both criminal and unnecessary...
...cover the Egyptian fighting, 27-year-old Angus Macdonald of London's weekly Spectator fell last week under a Cypriot assassin's bullet, shot in the back on a Nicosia street. He was the third newsman to die in the Middle Eastern crisis. Ironically, his last dispatch argued "the bankruptcy of [Britain's Cyprus] policy of shoot first, negotiate afterwards...
...violence was mostly Russian. A dispatch brought by courier from a Western embassy reported: "The situation in Budapest is terroristic. Soviet soldiers are stealing and looting everywhere. They get into private homes and apartments on the pretext of looking for partisans and arms and then loot everything. Civilians are being stopped by Soviet soldiers on the street. The soldiers take from them all watches and jewelry. Civilian wounded are being taken to Rokus Hospital, which is very much overcrowded. Dead from the wards are thrown into the hospital courtyard. Wine cellars all over the city are being broken into...
...first man to speak was Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Gripping the edge of the dispatch box, Gaitskell strove desperately for statesmanlike caution. "I think," said he, "it would be unwise if we were to plunge into any lengthy discussion . . ." He realized that his words must start one of the biggest battles in parliamentary history. Then, unable to contain himself, Gaitskell burst out: "But I must ask the Prime Minister under what authority and with what right he believes British and French forces are justified in armed intervention in this matter, before there has been any pronouncement by the United Nations...