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...after the Secretary's denial, the New York Times's veteran Washington correspondent Bertram D. Hulen marched into the regular Hull press conference armed with a dispatch just received from a Times London correspondent. The dispatch asserted that "there have been repeated instances of objections from Washington to stories by American correspondents for American newspapers about diplomatic developments which had been passed in regular routine through the British censorship...
...concerning premature London reports of : 1) Secretary Hull's impending arrival in Moscow; 2) the Italian declaration of war against Germany; 3) signing of the third Lend-Lease agreement with Russia; 4) the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang conference at Cairo. A fifth had already been mentioned in the Times dispatch from London: a report that a U.S. plan for postwar Germany had been submitted to the European Advisory Commission...
Scene: Spring of 1939 on the U. S. S. Bushnell off the coast of Colombia. Yeoman striker Kerr interrupts his daily routine long enough to read a dispatch confirming his appointment to the Academy. It was a happy day in Seaman 2/c Kerr's life, for the dispatch was the fulfillment of his motive for joining the Navy...
Last week British newsmen reported the reputed contents of the red dispatch case...
...papers, circ. 2,000,000) "occupies a world of deep, depressing blacks and dazzling whites. Untroubled by any of the shadings in between, he finds no difficulty in assigning a place to the most baffling tangle of cross-purposes.† The faculty enables him to read a three-paragraph dispatch about some remote and complicated affairs and come to an instant decision on what must be done. . . . Politically, Grafton [onetime office mate of Columnist Fisher] has been a supporter of the New Deal, although he grows restless because it hasn't accomplished as much...