Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchurian-born Mark Julius Gayn, 37, free-lance journalist specializing in Asiatic affairs...
...those arrested were guilty of actual treason; they had perhaps been trying to force the Government's hand in China, as all Communists, as well as their friends -conscious and unconscious-have long been trying to do. The question at issue seemed to be: how far can a journalist go in divulging official secrets? Top Washington newsmen, who are constantly digging for "confidential" information, began to wonder where they stood. At his press conference, Secretary Grew admitted that the State Department often classifies material "top secret" but makes it available as background for news stories. Irritated for months...
...French positions. While the city rang with welcome to the British, and Paget's red, handsome face beamed, Roget angrily ordered his men back to barracks. He raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
...ferret-eyed Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard's hopabout journalist who rarely stays in any one country long enough for a second breath, or a second thought. Within 48 hours of reaching Chungking, he had seen Chiang Kai-shek and was breathlessly cabling home: "Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in an exclusive interview today, promised to ease Chinese censorship regulations on news going to the United States. ... I told him that there was increasing uneasiness in America because of the tight censorship. . . . Chiang said he welcomed such a frank complaint...
Biographer Adams, who is an old chum of Woollcott's and a fellow alumnus of Hamilton College as well as a practiced journalist and storyteller (Revelry; The Gorgeous Hussy; It Happened One Night), deals both gently and sharply with a personality who, outside politics and crooning, may quite possibly have stirred up more love and loathing than any U.S. contemporary...