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...York Times's Arthur Krock noted that the talk among Democrats in Washington was not so much about foreign affairs or domestic labor troubles as about the President's popularity and whether it was falling off. Pundit Krock thought it was. The Wall Street Journal reported that Harry Truman's performance as a peacetime President "is beginning to cause alarm among some of his ... advisers." And Business Week, which had looked uneasily on Franklin Roosevelt for twelve years, came right out and said that what the country apparently needs is "a return to one-man government...
Last year, New York Timesman Arthur Krock selected this picture of Korean administration at the turn of the century as an appropriate brick to throw (by way of parable) at Washington's bureaucracy. Last week the lack of connection between U.S. "help discuss" and "help decide" mandarins was painfully apparent in Korea...
...reporting was at this low level. There were also responsible men like Walter Lippmann, David Lawrence, Jay Hayden. The New York Times's star-studded eight-man staff, topped by Managing Editor Edwin L. James, included Anne O'Hare McCormick, Arthur Krock, James ("Scotty") Reston. British newspapers sent 43 men; the Russians, seven; the Chinese, five...
...Second Day. To Arthur Krock, the New York Times's Washington pundit, the day before the showdown was "the night before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...Warm Springs, Ga., Washington D.C. seemed more & more like an empty stage, its emptiness spotlighted by the news from Europe. Last week, back at the White House, the President faced newsmen, who arrived full of questions and left nearly empty of answers. The New York Times's Arthur Krock was stirred to an annoyed essay on the House of Commons' success in extracting information from Winston Churchill. But the President, rested and amiable, spoke his small news with a good-humored...