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...Leak. As the Government expanded, it developed a slick technique of professional pressagentry. Sometimes the pressagents do a helpful and necessary job of briefing reporters on complicated subjects. But too often they plug only the Administration's side of a crucial Government issue, hope the reporter hasn't the sense or gumption to dig up the other side. The Federal Government now employs about 5,000 full-and part-time pressagents, spends an estimated $65 million a year on salaries and printing. The payroll is still growing fast; in a year the number of pressagents in the Defense...
...Washington, a favorite trick of politicos to undermine an opponent-or a trusting friend-is to "leak" uncomplimentary stories about him to newsmen. Last week the leak was briefly turned against Vice President Alben Barkley. The word was whispered around Washington that Alben Barkley could never run again for the vice presidency. "The old man," said one Senator, "just can't take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert...
...Administration's rejoinder to the MacArthur proposals: bombing of Manchurian bases or of the Chinese mainland would not cripple the enemy as much as Mac-Arthur believes, because, for one thing, life is cheap in China; a naval blockade would involve the U.S. with Russian ships, would probably "leak like a sieve," and would not shut off the main Chinese supplies, coming by land from Russia; the value of Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Formosa in any expedition against the Reds is negligible. "I do not believe . . . the result would be commensurate with the effort that...
...Find a Leak. Going beyond the transcript, newsmen kept on the alert to score beats from "leaks." The first big leak came, inadvertently, from General MacArthur himself. As he walked into the room, the general was overheard telling Senators that the White House had assured him that "there would be no stenographers present" at his Wake Island conference with Harry Truman...
President Truman had canceled a scheduled speech so as not to "detract7' from Douglas MacArthur's day. Publicly, the White House made a great show of leaving MacArthur unanswered. But privately, through the device of a leak to the New York Times, Harry Truman struck back. It seemed to be the opening of a battle in which each side would lean on documents marked "Secret" to make its case before...