Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This long, bitter, muscular novel, by the bitter author of The Bells of Basel and Residential Quarter, Louis Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth...
...today." "I," wrote Mr. Ingersoll, "happen to be the only man in the world equipped to write such a series." This week Editor Ingersoll's first piece of first-person narrative appeared. It was also the first uncensored, firsthand report on fighting Russia by a capable U.S. journalist. Excerpts: "If Hitler cares to pay a fantastic price in men ... he may be able to encircle Moscow. From what I have seen, I do not believe he will be able to take it in frontal assault...
...officers and men were throwing a Christmas party together with the greatest of cameraderic. This would never happen in our Navy. German army officers sleep on the same ground as their men, eat out of the same field kitchen, and actually go with them into battle. Another of the journalist-writers tells of traveling through Paris just after the occupation and seeing an officer, who had just taken a squad of his soldiers to dinner at a restaurant, pointing out on a map to them in a fatherly way the spots of interest they were going to visit together...
Best guess as to the identity of Der Snag was that he was a onetime Viennese journalist named Ernst Fischer. Russian circles in London also guessed that Foreign Vice Commissar Soloman Abramovich Lozovsky, who speaks perfect German and likes a little joke, slipped a word in now and then. The Nazis tried to jam out the voice, but succeeded only in jamming out their own broadcast. One night they put three news broadcasters on the air, one following another without pause so as to thwart the Red radio. They talked so fast that nobody understood a word they said...
Opening gun was a long letter from an Americanophile, old Etonian and journalist, Philip Hewitt-Myring, which the august London Times played up on its editorial page. Said he: Roosevelt is no dictator, has plenty of opposition in the U.S. Under the circumstances Britain should regard any U.S. aid as a "bonus." "From this fools' paradise, however, in which we supposed that all we have to do is to keep Hitler at bay until American deliveries win the war for us, we must imperatively and immediately depart...