Word: freda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your May 21 Press section under the heading "Exit from the Nation" you ran a report which conveyed an inaccurate impression . . . Without arguing the merits of [Editor Freda Kirchwey's] libel suit, I want to state that my decision to resign as executive editor of the Nation antedated the libel suit brought against Mr. Clement Greenberg and the New Leader, and no connection between the two actions should be implied...
John K. Fairbank, '29, professor of Hastory, told the CRIMSON last night that Freda Utley's new book, "The China Story," is "an intemperate interpretation" of our relations with China. His charge was in answer to a review which appeared in Time magazine branding him "a Communist apologist...
...allowing the Communists to grow to power in China ... I believe we will pay for it, for a century." MacArthur did not explore in detail the how & why of the great error. That task is undertaken in an angry, hardhitting book published last week-The China Story, by Freda Utley (Henry Regnery Co.; $3.50)-A British-born, U.S.-naturalized ex-Communist whose Russian husband vanished in the Soviet purges of the 30's, Author Utley is a seasoned, firsthand observer of China events: her 1947 book, Last Chance in China, was a prophetic, little-heeded account of how Communism...
...midst of the journalistic battle among the liberals, the weekly Nation last week suffered some crippling casualties. Executive Editor Harold C. Field, righthand man of Editor Freda Kirchwey for the past two years, quietly resigned, effective the end of June. Two longtime contributors already had pulled their names from the Nation's masthead: Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for 15 years a staff contributor, and Political Writer Robert Bendiner, contributing editor and onetime (1937-44) managing editor...
John K. Fairbank, professor of history, is labeled "a longtime apologist for Communist China" in the current issue of TIME magazine. The statement appears in a four page review of "The China Story," by Freda Utley...