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...generally shrewd outlook on the world, the influential Washington Post (circ. 187,555) has navigated its approach to Far Eastern affairs by two bright beacons. One is Editor Herbert Elliston's livid hatred of Chinese Nationalist Leader Chiang Kaishek. The other was his admiration and respect for Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who had given every sign of sharing the Post's views on Chiang...
...months ago, Elliston began to hear disturbing things: Acheson was saying privately that maybe the U.S. should toughen its policy toward the Chinese Communists, and responsible Democrats on Capitol Hill were saying that nothing could be done with Administration foreign policy while Acheson stayed in office. Last week, when Elliston heard that Acheson had not raised his voice against sending a 600-man military mission to Chiang on Formosa (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he decided the time had come. In a churning editorial the Post called for Dean Acheson's resignation...
...Secretary of State, editorialized the Post, is "more parallel than antithetical to MacArthur" and "much less candid and forthright." Then Editor Elliston told his readers some things he had managed to conceal from them for a long time...
...Post, Herblock works behind the closed door of a cluttered, dusty cubbyhole. After a morning spent reading the papers, pacing, brooding and doodling, he makes rough sketches of three or four ideas. When he shows them to Editor Herbert Elliston, he always puts his own favorite on top. Elliston usually agrees. Block's ideas come hard. Says he: "Cartooning isn't inspirational at all. It's more like laying bricks...
...journalism: the Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, for public service; the New York Times' s Washington Correspondent C. P. Trussell, for national-affairs reporting; the Baltimore Sun's Price Day, for foreign reporting; the Boston Herald's John H. Crider and the Washington Post's Herbert Elliston, for editorial writing; the Newark Evening News's Lute Pease, for cartooning; the New York Herald Tribune's Nat Fein, for news photography...