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Last week the New York Times, which has a larger foreign staff and publishes more foreign dispatches than any other U.S. newspaper, editorially remarked that it was tempted to resume the use of "Censored." As a case in point, the Times took up the "small and dwindling" corps of U.S. correspondents (now five) still permitted to do business in Moscow, including the Times's own Harrison Salisbury (who last week was back in the U.S. for a brief Minnesota vacation). Said the Times: "When [the Moscow correspondent] has written his dispatch, with the best accuracy he can muster...
...Great Future. To Western Union's further embarrassment last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Crime Reporter Theodore C. Link dug out an interesting new fact. Among Western Union's 15 largest stockholders, he reported, is William, Molasky, vice president of St. Louis' Pioneer News-Service, a racing news syndicate. Molasky, withhis wife, owns 14,000 shares of Western Union stock (present valuer about $400,000). Western Union's reply was that it had no control over who bought its stock in the open market. That was true enough. But in Washington members...
John Stewart Service, 35, State Department careerman and sometime U.S. observer at the Red headquarters of Mao Tse-tung; Mark Gayn, 36, journalist (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Newsweek, TIME), who was then free-lancing for Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post...
...have Bevin's job as Foreign Secretary during those years disagreed. From the dispatch box opposite Bevin, Anthony Eden attacked the "timing and method" which had put Britain out of step with the U.S., France and most of the Commonwealth. Said Eden sharply: "Recognition has in fact brought out no advantage at all ... Our commercial interests in China are of immense importance [but] it will advantage no one-not those firms, nor anyone else-to embark on a policy of appeasement . . ." British recognition, he added, had adversely affected "events outside China, notably in Indo-China and in Malaya...
What's Up? Twice Ellen Knauff won reprieves from the courts, one by only a few hours. Then boos and hisses began to come from the gallery: the New York Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had taken up her case. The House Judiciary Committee heard Mrs. Knauff's story-she had served the British R.A.F. with distinction during the war, worked for the U.S. in Germany after the war, sworn that she had never been a Communist or a Communist sympathizer. What, then, was all the fuss about...