Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Agnes Smedley, 56, Missouri-born journalist, Daily Worker contributor, fervent propagandist for a Communist China (China Fights Back), free-lance foreign correspondent in Soviet-dominated lands; after long illness; in Oxford, England...
...line Socialist has worked harder at his job of telling the truth about Communism than a Russian refugee journalist named Samuel Moise-witch Levitas. For the past 20 years, with a little band of writers, "Sol" Levitas has carried on his indefatigable campaign in the New Leader, a weekly newspaper he publishes in a crowded Manhattan office at 7 East 15th Street...
Analyzing the failure of the League, Journalist Streit came to one basic conclusion : it had been done in by pride, self-interest and jealousy, in short by unbridled nationalism. He conceded that nationalism could also be a matter of enlightened self-interest, patriotism, independence, other good things. But when sovereignty became a fetish, he thought, it produced more evil than good. Nationalism, he decided, was the poison that had killed peace...
...Price of Union" is a book about practices rather than ideals, accomplishments rather than programs. In his systematic review of American history from the background of the Revolution to the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, historian-journalist Agar (Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal) is always on the history he records-for the opposing pressures and influences from which the events arose...
Agar's illuminating study ends with the true journalist's application of is text to the immediate situation: he suggests that a modern world torn by conflicting ideologies and seeking a compromise "might do worse than study the curious methods by which such assuagements are effected" in the marvelous history of the American republic...