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...special casualty was President Roosevelt's sixth cousin Joseph W. Alsop Jr., 31-year-old ex-columnist (Alsop & Kintner), who was reported missing at Hong Kong. Not a casualty in the line of journalistic duty, Alsop was working for Chiang Kaishek, as liaison officer with the volunteer U.S. flyers under Colonel Claire Chennault. If the Japanese nabbed him he has even less chance of being exchanged than other correspondent prisoners...
...chief of OFF, Franklin Roosevelt picked his friend Poet Archibald MacLeish,* Librarian of Congress, who occasionally helps draft a White House speech. To help him ferret out his facts & figures, Director MacLeish will have blond, chub-cheeked Captain Robert Kintner, who gave up a lucrative Washington column (with Joseph Alsop, just resigned from the Navy) to take an Army commission, and rich, personable Lieut. Barry Bingham (son of the late Ambassador to Britain Robert Worth Bingham), who gave up his job as publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal for a commission in the Navy...
...began when Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner reported last month that a U.S. destroyer on patrol duty had tossed three depth charges at a German submarine. At a press conference one day last week, a reporter asked Colonel Knox whether the Navy's new policy meant that if U.S. ships ran afoul of Nazis between the U.S. and Iceland they would start shooting. For reply, the Secretary quoted Franklin Roosevelt's words: "I have . . . issued orders . . . that all necessary steps be taken...
...Secretary went further. Reporters also asked about the truth of a report by Columnists Alsop & Kintner that a U.S. destroyer on Atlantic patrol dropped depth bombs on a German submarine. The Secretary was really sore this time. Roared he: "I don't know where they got their information, but I know that it was a terrible thing to print it, right or wrong...
...reporter came back to the main question: Was the Alsop & Kintner story true? Answer: "I wouldn't tell you if I knew it to be true." But the Secretary did not say it was false...