Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain propose to live with Russia? Joseph Stalin has attended no Roosevelt-Churchill conferences. His absence this time was painfully emphasized last week by a dispatch from the official Russian news agency Tass stating he had not been invited. (Actually Stalin was informed the moment the conference was scheduled: in diplomatic usage an invitation is never extended unless it is certain to be accepted...
...press does indeed exploit sensational race stories but these strictures merely made a bad situation worse. Editorialized the Detroit Free Press: "Wholly inadequate. . . . Every race and every minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings...
...dispatch which follows, TIME Correspondent Jack Belden describes the last hours of the bitterest battle which American troops fought in the Sicilian campaign...
...Berlin dispatch announced the German Government in &#quot;permanent session&#quot; at Adolf Hitler's field headquarters. Present: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, Ribbentrop, Munitions Minister Speer, Chief of Staff Keitel, Grand Admiral Doenitz, Air Marshal Milch, Generals Zeitzler and Jodl of the General Staff. (Notable absentee: General Walther von Brauchitsch, former CINC of the Wehrmacht, who disappeared from the Russian front last January. Might he become Germany's Badoglio...
...days later, Bureau Chief Krock rushed into print with a fuller explanation. His dispatch, written in the Virginia horse country, began: "Since this correspondent left Washington for a considerable absence. . . ." His own skirts cleared, Columnist Krock resumed the official Times line...