Word: lamberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a brief rest leave in Tokyo, Correspondent Tom Lambert of the Associated Press climbed into clean combat fatigues last week to go back to the front. Just as Lambert was boarding a bus for the airfield, he was handed an unexpected, unwelcome and undeserved order from Colonel Marion P. Echols, press chief for General MacArthur. For filing dispatches giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," able, conscientious Newsman Lambert was forbidden to return to Korea. So was United Press Correspondent Peter Kalischer, for the same harsh reason...
Colonel Echols offered only one example of Lambert's "objectionable" reporting. The A.P. man had quoted a front-line G.I.: "You don't fight two tank-equipped divisions with .30-caliber carbines. I never saw such a useless damned war in all my life." Echols said some Kalischer dispatches also "made the Army look...
...editors fired off protests to MacArthur, including cables from the New York chiefs of A.P. and U.P. In Tokyo, the wire services' bureau chiefs went to see MacArthur, took Lambert and Kalischer along. Affable and apologetic, MacArthur implied that he had not known of the decision, that it had been made by a subordinate. (Commented one old newsman later: "Nobody here but us chicken colonels.") MacArthur added that censorship was "abhorrent...
...general preferred to let the correspondents decide for themselves what should and should not be reported. A correspondent could get a green, battle-shocked soldier to say anything, said MacArthur, but it was the correspondent's responsibility to achieve a "leavening balance." Expressing confidence in his "old friends" Lambert and Kalischer, MacArthur revoked the Echols...
Died. Basil Garwood ("Professor Lam-berti") Lambert, 58, "mad xylophonist" of vaudeville; after long illness; in Hollywood. Professor Lamberti's best known act: he played repeated xylophone encores, to wild applause, apparently unaware that a stripteuse was performing behind his back...