Word: kent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George VI will feel the Duke's departure keenly; since the death of the Duke of Kent, Gloucester has been more than ever His Majesty's main help in the interminable chores of royalty. But a Royal Duke posted in Canberra should bind the British Commonwealth even more solidly together...
...World War I's end, tough-minded, ingenious Kent Cooper, traffic manager of the Associated Press, was in Paris. There he suggested to Allied peacemakers that the Versailles Treaty include a clause guaranteeing worldwide freedom of the press. He got astute support from Colonel Edward M. House, but from few others...
This week Kent Cooper, now A.P.'s executive director, renewed the fight. In an article written for a "Journalism in War-Time" symposium, he proposed that international freedom of news exchange be made a cardinal principle of any future peace treaties. Back of his proposal was a sound newsman's unshakable conviction: if universal dissemination of truth can be guaranteed in the postwar world, the chances of new wars occurring will become remote. Said...
Better Chance? This time Kent Cooper's proposal seemed to have some chance. Precedent had already been established...
...urging of Cordell Hull, the Moscow Conference agreed, in language reminiscent of the U.S. Bill of Rights, that: "Freedom of speech, of religious worship, of political belief, of press and of public meeting shall be restored in full measure to the Italian people. . .."* Even a hard-headed realist like Kent Cooper had reason to hope that Allied statesmen would feel the same way about Germany and other Axis powers, that Russia would fall into line of her own motion...