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...York Times's Arthur Krock laid alarmed hands on a little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or First Aid to the Layman. Mr. Chase had prepared it for SEC's Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee. Its purpose was to prime Government examiners to use "good" words, avoid "bad" ones-the better to propagandize the New Deal. Excerpts...
...sitting at a table aboard ship in the Azores or some equally remote anchorage, settling the world's hash personally with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, was drawn in calm, confident words last week on the front page of the New York Times by its Washington correspondent, Arthur Krock. Some time last summer, said Mr. Krock, Mr. Roosevelt asked the Dictators to slip away and meet him at sea, but they declined...
Franklin Roosevelt read this latest Krock "scoop" the same morning that Adolf Hitler replied to his peace message, and he swiftly denied it.* Said he affably: "It is not true, but otherwise it is interesting and well written...
Replied Arthur Krock: "It was related separately and uniformly at different times to this correspondent by men of high repute and clear minds who have the White House entree...
Fellow newsmen felt confident that the Krock story was accurate in direction if not detail. Certainly it did not exaggerate the might & main which Franklin Roosevelt has been exerting to save the peace of the world. Last week Raymond Leslie Buell, research director of the Foreign Policy Association, went so far as to give Mr. Roosevelt full credit for averting war at least twice: last month and just before Munich (September...