Word: grafton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around for U.S. reaction, OWI grabbed a column by the New York Post's Samuel Grafton, who wrote: "The moronic Fttle king who has stood behind Mussolini's shoulder for 21 years has moved forward one pace." OWI added an epithet of its own: "Marshal Badoglio, a high-ranking Fascist, has been named successor." It also quoted one John Durfee, described as "the American political commentator," as saying that Mussolini's fall was not regarded in the U.S. as an event of much importance...
...came out best in last week's controversy was Columnist Grafton. When the Hearst papers tried to brand OWI as Communist by citing him as a horrible example, Grafton wrote: "The Hearst press has even dug up out of Mr. Dies's files the fact that I was once a member of a 'front' organization, the League of American Writers. So I was. And I led the non-Communist members out of it. ... If [Mr. Dies] checks further, he will find that the League's official attitude toward the war, at that time, was Isolationist...
This was, first of all, expert psychological warfare. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The slogans offered are German slogans, not American, British or Russian slogans; Germans are invited to fight, not for our sakes, but for their own. . . . This is political blitz." Secondly, it may be a political maneuver, Russia's latest attempt to get the real second front it wants in Europe. The Russians may hope that the German Committee and its manifesto, combined with the Red Army's summer advance, will convince U.S. and British leaders that they had better get to Berlin fast...
...distributed clippings of it to Sun staffers, including Founder-Publisher Marshall Field. It berated the Sun for departing from its liberal line, for failing to live up to its possibilities. Cried Copyboy Newberger: "Get rid of Publisher Silliman Evans and assistants . . . and replace them with fighters of the Sam Grafton, Max Lerner, Ralph Ingersoll type. . . . What the Sun needs is dynamic leadership." (Copyboy Newberger still...
Columnist Samuel Grafton of the New York Post cheered the Willkie trip as the best news in a long time, even as "a turning point in the war." Wrote he eloquently...