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...final objection is that the editors would hardly be free agents when they returned home. They would be under pressure to claim first-hand evidence for Russia's anti-American policy. There is the chance, however, that the visitors would learn enough to question this policy. Thus even if they did return to play variations on an old theme, the result could be no worse than the distortions which now exist...
...column about horse races, the New York Herald Tribune's Red Smith last week wrote: "Mr. Joe E. Lewis, who says comical things in nightclubs and bets on them at race tracks, is the author of a profound observation made after years of first-hand study. 'I have been rich and I have been poor,' Mr. Lewis says, 'and believe me, rich is better.' There are various ways of getting rich without help from the Federal Housing Administration...
Died. Anne O'Hare McCormick, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times commentator on foreign affairs and (since 1936) the first woman member of the Times's governing editorial board; of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in England, reared in Ohio, she made numberless trips to Europe (often with her husband, a Dayton importer) for first-hand interviews. A writer of clear, unexcited prose, she cut through much of the nonsense in her field, constantly urged the U.S. to treat its allies with consideration and develop its foreign policy from strength...
...evident that you have not recovered from the Roosevelt brain wash. It is fortunate for objective truth that the majority of the American public are able to watch this investigation first-hand via television, and are not required to depend upon your misinterpretation of the event...
Last week, at last, there were sharp indications that India might be edging towards disenchantment with Communism and Red China, even if this did not mean relaxation of her "neutrality." The reasons: first-hand experience of Communist oppression and inhumanity in Korea's prisoner-of-war explanations, and mounting concern at Red China's troop concentrations, banditry and infiltration along India's 2,000-mile northern frontier...