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...from him. Other members of the shifting, four-man panel come from the top drawer of the U.S. press, and many a bigwig has winced under the volley of questions from such reporters as the New York Times's "Scotty" Reston, Raymond Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, U.P.'s Merriman Smith, and Columnists Marquis Childs and Drew Pearson...
Although Eisenhower had described the U.S. role in NATO chiefly as a supplier of arms and air power, he had made it clear that the U.S. would dispatch some troops; how many, he said, was an open question. For reasons of security, Marshall "reluctantly" expanded Eisenhower's cautious statement. He took the step, he said, because Western Europe's morale could be weakened by further debate that was "based on uncertainties...
More than 100 papers and radio stations gave it a play (HARVARD SEEN DRAFT SOURCE; MOM WANTS SIMPERING HARVARDS IN SERVICE). New York papers used it, all but one knocking out the word "purportedly." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch played the story on Page...
...Sleeping. The 2nd Division was singled out for handsome praise last week by General Ridgway, the Eighth Army commander. No doubt this, and the toll of enemy casualties, comforted the G.I.s-if anything could comfort them in the dreadful mountain winter. In a grim dispatch describing their ordeals in the "awful, bitter, uncompromising, relentless cold," Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim Lucas quoted a mortar platoon lieutenant addressing a handful of green replacements...
Look's editors had cabled Bigart for "a report on the situation in Korea," after he had made much the same charges early in December in a dispatch to the Herald Tribune from Seoul. MacArthur had ignored the Trib story. But this time, prompted by Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery, MacArthur fired off a scorching reply to Bigart's article...