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...time McCormick flew into Bombay last week, the Indians could hardly wait. Because of the Tribune's rabid opposition to anything British, India's nationalists have regarded Bertie as their best American friend. At Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, the 50 newsmen who met their best friend face to face got a rude shock...
Tired and bored, Colonel McCormick described himself as a "reporter looking for news." M. A. Gidwani of the United Press of India, also looking for news, asked McCormick what he thought about the dispute between India and Pakistan over the status of Kashmir (TIME, Jan. 9). Replied McCormick: "I did not know there was such a place before I landed here," thus convicted himself of failing to read his own newspaper"; the Trib's Delhi correspondent, Percy Wood, has filed full and accurate accounts of the dispute. Then McCormick made a tentative stab: "That is where the rugs come...
When affronted Reporter Gidwani suggested that Kashmir's future was a "very important question," McCormick disagreed. "American people," said he, "generally are not interested in happenings in countries very far from their own." Snapped Sorab Patell, reporter for Bombay's sensational tabloid weekly Blitz: "Are you interested in anything but yourself?" Barked Bertie: "An impudent question . . . What do you know about Alaska?" (Next day the Times of India pointedly printed a story about Alaska...
...Colonel tackled social ones. He told his race-conscious audience that he considered President Truman's civil-rights proposals "a new form of slavery." When a reporter asked him whether Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S., was welcome at the White House,* McCormick snorted: "I wouldn't know. I am not welcome there myself...
Last week the News did more. It sent veterarn Police Reporter Harry McCormick to Denver to blow the whistle on crime there. Once, kidnaped by a member of the notorious Barrow-Parker gang (1935), McCormick got an exclusive interview and persuaded the kidnaper to vouch for its authenticity by pressing his fingerprints on the windshield of McCormick's car before he was let go. McCormick had hoped to keep his visit to Denver under cover. But the Post ran him down within 24 hours, politely offered him a car, a photographer and a look at the files. This week...