Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower's visit, this iron streak of Hagerty's in standing up to the daily hammering by the press had won the grudging admiration of many British newsmen. The night before Eisenhower left, one hitherto critical Fleet Streeter declared: "We have learned to regard you here as a friend and helper." Then he added: "Should the President come back again, we shall try to ask you questions such as 'Will he be having haggis for lunch?' " Deadpanned Jim' Hagerty: "Thank you very much. I appreciate...
...have put in for retirement before Nov. 1. when the Tombstone Law goes out of operation. And last week three of the U.S. Marine Corps' four top officers decided that they too should depart before the deadline. The three, all lieutenant generals: Vernon E. Megee, 59, commanding the Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific; Edwin A. Pollock, 60, commanding the FMF in the Atlantic, and Merrill B. Twining, 56, commandant of the Marine Corps School at Quantico (and younger brother of Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). Upon retirement under the Tombstone...
Gnat Bites. To suggestions that all this bordered on abuse of press freedom, Britain's editors could point with some justice to the public behavior of Adenauer and De Gaulle. Recalling the radio speech in which Adenauer charged that Fleet Street was being manipulated by anti-German "wire pullers" (TIME, April 20), London's Economist declared: "Dr. Adenauer has chosen to make a political issue of the gnat bites of individual British critics, and to make use of them in opposing British policies." Along with the Economist, most Britons professed to find it hard to understand...
...answer to this was supplied by the influential Manchester Guardian. "The Express' circulation," said the Guardian, "is something which thoughtful Frenchmen are not prepared to shrug off." Fact is that, although Fleet Street may exaggerate popular emotions, it has a good nose for what they are. No one could doubt that ordinary Englishmen nodded in agreement when the Daily Herald, in a moment of candor, stated: "Between [De Gaulle and Adenauer] there is a common bond: a determination to cut down Britain's influence on the Continent...
Worth More Worry. So far, the British government has made no effort to counter the anti-French and anti-German shrillness in Fleet Street. Said one British official : "The only effect of the popular press that we are worried about is the effect it has through requotation abroad." In a week when Moscow's Izvestia could draw on Fleet Street for propaganda material, these effects were perhaps worth more worry than British statesmen and publishers had yet given them...