Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Powerful Soviet offensives Wednesday threatened German forces on the cold eastern fornt with diaster and a Berlin dispatch admitted it was doubtful that any German "winter line" could be held in Russia...
...secret leaked into the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week. Thinking it over, FCC didn't much mind. The story did credit to FCC, and it certainly gave no comfort to the enemy...
Then, as the Post-Dispatch's Marquis W. Childs reported last week, the State Department restrained the FBI from moving in. The gumshoes, it was thought, might upset negotiations with Germany for safe exchange of diplomatic personnel. But when Germany's Hans Thomsen and friends departed to take a little rest in West Virginia, the transmitter stopped. To the Post-Dispatch story, FCC last week added two definitive points: 1) every message sent had been decoded; 2) the Embassy sender had been neatly jammed the moment it started sending messages...
Moscow was again the capital of Russia this week. "Today," wrote New York Timesman. Cyrus Sulzberger in his first Moscow dispatch in two months, "the sun rose propitiously, shining on the placid white streets while the inordinately gay Muscovites, relieved of strain, bustled about doing their Sunday shopping, jesting at the latest posters ridiculing the retreating Germans...
...When an A.P. dispatch from Egypt, undoubtedly passed by the British censors, reported the establishment of a U.S. "arsenal" in Eritrea, the War Department belatedly described this as "essential military information" and asked newspapers to refrain from publishing it. This attempt to conceal information that was already public knowledge abroad-a good example of confusing the U.S. people with the enemy-was frustrated by the fact that U.S. papers had already published...