Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Russia scarcely seemed to notice Winston Churchill's historic challenge to Soviet expansion. Then suddenly, eight days later, the Moscow radio blared forth. Joseph Stalin, in an interview with Pravda, made one of the bitterest peace time attacks by one statesman upon another...
...Indiscretions of Ahmadi. Iran's young Shah Mohamed Reza apparently was less cautious than Gavam. War Minister General Sepahbod Amir Ahmadi had an interview with the Shah and then blood-&-thundered to U.S. newsmen that Iranians would fight any overt act of the Russians. Foreign Office officials shook their heads in disapproval. "How silly" said one. "The Russians can be here in one hour." To the question: "Will Iran really fight?" the answer was an Oriental shrug of the shoulders. Two days later, red-faced General Ahmadi repudiated his words, blamed them on a "faulty translation...
...could fall back on his job as a greengrocer's assistant at F. Harrison, Ltd. in Manchester, which he had held for 18 years. But, though it was steady enough, he dreamed of bigger things; once, when a reporter came to interview him at the greengrocery, he puckishly pretended that he was someone else, that "Alber" had moved away. Where? To a farm in Essex, said "Yungg Alber" wistfully...
...hand by the Russians. One group was confined for 54 hours in Mukden and 53 hours in Changchun, for arriving without official sanction. At Changchun, calling on frosty Major General Fedor Karlov, they were curtly told to stay away from Red Army installations. At the end of the interview, Karlov told newsmen: "We have no machines to take you back to the hotel." At 10 below zero, they trudged the three miles back through the snow. Several noted that U.S. Lend-Lease trucks and cars, with the Soviet star on them, passed them...
Most of MMP's items are a product of the run of the week's news, but we interview a number of subjects ourselves. One of them, flat-bellied (his own term) Author Michael Arlen, whose observations about his life & times subsequently appeared in People (TIME, Feb. 11), was so impressed with the work of the researcher who interviewed him that he applied for a job as People writer. We are also indebted to you for some of the items in MMP. In that category, however, our champion contributor is Capt. Frank Luckel, U.S. Navy...