Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...antifascist journalist (Michael Redgrave) who raged through the 1930s with a Cassandra's customary success, retires to sit out World War II on Thunder Rock, in a Great Lakes lighthouse. Embittered, soaked with liquor and self-pity, he is content to let the world go hang. While it hangs, he entertains himself by conjuring up in his imagination a number of immigrants from Europe who drowned near his lighthouse a century ago. Before long they all but take on flesh & blood, act out for him the tragedies and the defeats of their own lifetimes...
...heartbroken feminist, fled from the contemptuous jails of England. One (Frederick Cooper), a consumptive workman, fled from the inhumanities of a Victorian factory. One (Frederick Valk), a Viennese physician who prediscovered anesthesia, fled from the bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story...
...Historian-Journalist Herbert Agar (former president of New York's Freedom House) got the loudest applause. Said he: "When we have beaten back the tyrannies . . . there will be many temptations to suspend our allegiance to Areopagitica at least so far as the enemy is concerned.... Let us forbid them the use of arms. Let us make such disposal of their persons and property as we and our Allies think appropriate. But let us not try to tell them what they may read or even what they may print. ... It will be irksome if the Germans rush into print...
...Algiers, as the Allied armies rolled on to Paris, General de Gaulle's Provisional Government took a major step toward the reconstruction of its shattered country. It adopted rules aimed to make the press of liberated France honest and responsible. In the U.S., meantime, France's fanned Journalist André Géraud ("Pertinax") published an authoritative book on his country's betrayers (The Gravediggers of France; Doubleday, Doran; $6) with an illuminating chapter on the notorious, cynical venality of the press in prewar France...
...world. And of those trained there in the last quarter century, most have learned from Fodor. Says John Gunther. one of his star pupils: "Fodor is one of the true good men of this earth. ... He has the most acutely comprehensive knowledge of Central Europe of any journalist I know. Half the good work that has come out of the Danube countries since 1920 or thereabouts has been Fodor's, not only his direct correspondence, but-indirectly-the work of other people whom he educates and influences. . . . He educated Dorothy Thompson and me practically from the cradle...