Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Press dispatch from Turkey reported that 300 Hungarian officers had been arrested last week for aiding Yugoslav, Polish and Russian guerrillas.) Mostly, however, the Yugoslavs fight with the same inferior weapons they had when the struggle started 16 months ago. But they fight an unflaggingly bitter war, as witness this tribute from the Italian press: "Italian troops are faced with terrible suffering in this fight against an irreconcilable foe, against a hostile population, in a country where death lurks behind every rock...
...late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's three great cartoonists have all stuck to their earnest convictions. One of them, poker-playing Daniel Fitzpatrick, lean, well-paid and determinedly independent, is still a mainstay of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and one of the foremost men in his profession. Another, Robert Minor, has long since laid down his charcoal to follow his beliefs into another profession (he is a member of the political committee of the Communist Party in the U.S.). The third, Rollin Kirby, once the best-known of the three, last week quit...
...into Virginia's affairs." But some were also deeply disturbed over Virginia justice. Finerty was joined before the Circuit Court of Appeals by Edmund Preston, Richmond attorney, member of the State's leading law firm. Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr. granted stay after stay. The Richmond Times-Dispatch declared: "Add the fact that we are in a war for survival in which we are depending heavily for victory on the colored races, and the significance of the Waller case becomes clearer...
...bring into the open its charge against Japan, with whom it has a year-old Neutrality Pact. If things were going peacefully, Russia would be unlikely to engage in public recrimination. Significant, too, was the fact that through the strict Soviet censorship last week came this sentence in a dispatch from Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune: "The Soviet Union has done everything possible under the circumstances to fulfill its obligations under the Pact . . . [but Russia] has never failed to make clear that it believed the Japanese attack [on the U.S. and Britain] was aggressive and treacherous...
Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance, and cargo rates that are all the traffic will bear; but in many cases it may be the only means of getting badly needed supplies...