Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of this letter is to correct an erroneous impression given by my March 28th Publisher's Letter on Robert Low, TIME Inc.'s Eastern European Correspondent. Discussing the growing difficulty of reporting the news behind the Balkans' Iron Curtain, the Letter said: "The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists ..." This was unjust to the small, hard-working group of U.S., British and other non-Communist foreign correspondents still doing their jobs in the Balkans' Communist countries. Correspondent Low was one of the first to call...
...satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
Some indication of the restrictions under which these newsmen have to work is given by the fact that they can be expelled for writing anything that the Communist governments do not like. Under the severe laws governing military and economic espionage, that could be as simple a thing as reporting the amount of money in circulation-or a host of other common facts & figures openly published by the Western democratic press. If a correspondent manages to get the Press Ministry's permission to leave the capital of his country, an official guide is usually assigned...
...vice president of Pullman Inc. to take $12,000 as Johnson's top hand. Gruff and imperious, but well-liked, Steve Early could enforce Johnson's ban on competitive publicity stunts by the services, do much to win the boss a good press. Moreover, Early had once given his old friend Johnson the best advice of his life. When Roosevelt broke his promise to Johnson and appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War in 1940, Johnson went off to California in a mighty dudgeon. Republicans tried to win him over. Early followed Johnson to California, coaxed...
Civilian Control. The simple, 700-word occupation statute should have given the Germans a number of things to be grateful for. Along with the statute, the Western allies confirmed a previous agreement to stop most of the dismantling of German industrial plants, and to admit the West German state as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization. Once the state comes into being, Military Government will end. Some occupation forces, however, will remain. The allies will retain certain key powers of control, to be vested in three civilian high commissioners. They will completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields...