Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allan Nevins, two-time Pulitzer Prize biographer, took over from Journalist Herbert Agar as "information & culture" chief at the London embassy...
Russia's No. 1 Propagandist-journalist, slight, greying Ilya Ehrenburg, had spent two months in the U.S., encouraged to look where he liked. Last week, for the United Press, he wrote a 1,700-word bread & butter letter, full of praise for America's splendid highways and damnation for U.S. newspapers. Obviously, if this great country was not getting along with his great country, the fault was America's Excerpts...
Another visiting journalist, France's Louis Martin-Chauffier, last week summed up the U.S.: "Good dough without yeast." Wrote he in the Paris Liberation: "American society is tough, commanded by the tough law of profit, by the even tougher law of the struggle for existence, reducing man either to a machine or to a nervous being straining simultaneously for the conquest of comfort and for self-defense...
...prewar France, it was said that "every French journalist is for sale," and the saying was embarassingly close to the truth. The papers for which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful Jean Prouvost, agitated for Hitler's armistice terms, spoke out against Britain. To Parisians, during the occupation, the name of his Paris-Soir (circ. 1,400,000) became as irrevocably linked with German propaganda as those of Le Temps, Le Matin and others which spoke in Nazi accents...
...Named after, but no kin to, the late great U.S. journalist...