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...some of the newsmen in Saigon he was known as "Meck the Knife." His name, as it has appeared on the TIME masthead since 1948, is John Mecklin. A veteran foreign correspondent, he went on leave of absence between 1962 and 1964 to take on one of the toughest press jobs to be found: U.S. Information Chief in South Viet...
...that mostly he must serve them. While everybody will agree that, above all, he must serve the truth, the truth is not easily ascertained in a place like Viet Nam. Thus, changing his role from reporter to information officer, from newsman to "news manager" (as some would put it), Mecklin often got caught between U.S. policy and the passionate opinions of his former colleagues. "You are a poacher turned gamekeeper," a British friend told...
...Mecklin was in the thick of the skirmishes between the U.S. press, the Saigon government and the U.S. embassy, and very much in the midst of the bitter political battles that ended the career and the life of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Yet "Meek the Knife" emerged from his difficult tour of duty to write an excellent account of the South Vietnamese war which he called Mission in Torment (see BOOKS). Author Mecklin had unique credentials for the task, having reported the .disastrous French campaign against the Communists and the establishment of the Diem regime for TIME between...
...Author Mecklin, a veteran TIME correspondent who served (on a leave of absence) from 1962 to 1964 as USIS chief in Saigon, watched the drama of Diem's last days from close range. The portrait of Diem that emerges from this bitter but balanced account is of a dedicated patriot flawed by hubris and hamstrung by scheming relatives...
...moved on to Paris to watch every maneuver and countermaneuver. White House Correspondent Charles Mohr followed President Eisenhower in from Washington; London Bureau Chief Robert Manning was on hand when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived; Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens came to concentrate on Khrushchev, Bonn Bureau Chief John Mecklin to watch the German side of the story. Paris Bureau Chief Frank White not only followed the French position but also coordinated the whole operation. From their well prepared positions, they were all set to report in depth to TIME'S editors in New York on the sudden explosion...