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...offense: bucketing out to Hollywood to make a movie called Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick when he should have been 1) singing Figaro in the season's last performance of The Barber of Seville, and 2) joining the rest of the Met company on its spring tour of 13 cities which starts this week...
Actually, Hearstlings had made no attempt to check the legitimacy of the Zabronsky letter. They,laid the blame for the blooper on Figaro for printing it in the first place...
...Beverly Hills home, old William Randolph Hearst pulled the fat swatch of clippings out of a letter from a correspondent in Paris, sent them off to his editors for a quick translation. Cut from last month's Paris Le Figaro, they were the most sensational parts of the World War II memoirs of José Doussinague, Spanish diplomat, now ambassador to Chile. When Hearst read the translation, he thought he had a big beat on the rest of the U.S. press. On his orders, his papers last week splashed it across front pages from coast to coast. Screamed...
This shocker was based on a letter which "fell into the hands of the Spanish Chief of State" in 1943, according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy...
...Figaro frankly admitted that it had not checked either. Its excuse was that the Doussinague memoirs had been published a year ago, that the State Department knew of the letter, and yet no U.S. official had bothered to brand it a fake. The State Department's lame excuse: the memoirs had not been brought to the attention of anyone "in authority." But none of these excuses absolved the Hearst papers for failure to question their story before printing...