Word: mailings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enthusiastic. There are no real issues; the country is calm, prosperous and intent on getting more so. The normally pro-Pearson Ottawa Citizen was sharply critical of "the specious grounds" for an election; the Ottawa Journal called it "a spectacle of bad judgment"; the Toronto Globe and Mail rapped Pearson for ignoring "every conviction relative to the national good." Summed up the Montreal Star: "The feeling across the country is that no election is necessary. Mr. Pearson has chosen to act in defiance of that feeling...
...move out front may also benefit the nation. So highly do Congressmen regard his drive and organizational talents that many last week were already looking forward to better postal service under "General" O'Brien, as his 600,000 employees will now call him. After all, without reasonably efficient mail, how could its citizens ever convince each other that Lyndon's Society was Great...
Johannesburg's crusading editor, Laurence Gandar, 50, of the Rand Daily Mail, had been looking forward to a visit to Britain, on an invitation mailed him just the week before by an admiring British newspaper group. Then, suddenly, two of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's detectives changed his plans by calling at his home and relieving him of his passport - indefinitely. Joked Gandar: "For a moment, it struck me that somebody here might have been reading my mail. But I dismissed so unworthy a thought...
...detectives did not say why they had revoked the passport. But it doubtlessly had to do with his campaign to expose the abuses in South Africa's prisons first reported to the Mail by ex-Prisoner Robert Harold Strachan (TIME, July 23). Last week Strachan, after two months of house arrest, was formally charged with violating the Prisons Act, which makes it a crime to provide false information about the jails. His trial is set for Sept...
Gandar himself was not permitted to take the stand. He may get the chance sometime, for the government may well be building a case against the Mail itself under the Prisons Act. In the past two months, the newspaper's office has been raided four times, and security police have seized all documents and photographs of prisons or prisoners. They have also visited sources whose names had only been discussed by Gandar on the telephone, leading him to suspect that his line is being tapped. Though the Mail has been campaigning for nothing more radical than a judicial enquiry...