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...censor-delayed dispatch from India printed in the Christian Century last week revealed that the British Government was taking extra precautions that missionaries should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. The method: a revised memorandum covering "aliens desiring to undertake missionary work" in India and Burma. Since World War I the British have required every foreign missionary to pledge that he would "do nothing contrary to or in diminution of the authority of the lawfully constituted government in the country to which I am appointed." The mission board or society which supports him now shares that...
Charles Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a Nieman Fellow now at Harvard, was also present at the interview but refused to comment whether Kennedy had stated that what he said was not for publication...
...Wintringham is no Sandhurst diehard, but his dope on warfare is from the inside. At 18 he joined the Royal Flying Corps and served in France as air gunner, dispatch rider, machine-gunner. At 38 he went to Spain to cover the civil war as a Leftist newspaperman. He had the face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla...
...cigaret lighter, cigaret case and cigarets, drew one day's sentence but were detained a fortnight. The loot was often trifling, but the principle was bad. Warned the News Chronicle: "If the looting went unchecked it would swiftly pave the way for social breakdown and anarchy . . ."; the Sunday Dispatch in an editorial titled "Forward the Gallows" snapped: "Someone should be hanged-quickly." Military and civil defense services were often involved. Most shocking case was that of four members of the heroic time-bomb disposal squad that saved St. Paul's (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week...
...American publishers are not journalists only a few of them are they would help their cause greatly by keeping their noses in their business and leaving it up to their editors to take stand on political issues. This policy has been successfully followed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; it was traditional on some of the best papers of pre-Hitler Europe. It bolsters newspapermen's morale by giving them their say in the paper's policy, and rises the status of editorial writers from stooges to thinking human begins. However, it is likely to throw the publishers into...