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...view of all this, Sherwood wrote Simon & Schuster's Dick Simon: "All of us who participated knew that we were running the risk that our motives might be widely misunderstood and misinterpreted, but it seemed a risk well worth running. The misinterpretation has certainly occurred, and I feel that it could only be increased ... by book publication...
...need for coordinating the world anti-Communist effort has a practical application to U.S.-Vatican relations. Osser-vafore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, on several occasions has misunderstood U.S. policies and motives. Osservatore's comments have contributed to European "neutralism," a movement in which a number of prominent Catholic intellectuals participate...
...Statesman Vittorio Emanuele Orlando signed; so did ex-Premier Saverio Nitti. In Canada, Clergyman Alexander James Wilson signed because "I would do anything under heaven to ensure peace." In the days when the dove was really flapping, his prize victim was Henry Wallace, who pleaded that the Russians were misunderstood and that "the tougher we get, the tougher the Russians get." Others confusedly offered plans for "proving" the U.S. meant no offense. Example: Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon's proposal for atomic disarmament in return for a $50 billion program of global aid, to include the Russians...
Little by little the boy began to talk. His name was Louis Turini. No, his name was really Albert Santos. But they had misunderstood in the Army and put him down as Albert Thomas. Now he was AWOL-two weeks AWOL. He complained about his divorced parents, his boyhood in Boston's slums. He babbled in bewildered tones about a girl. "My girl ran off with a musician. He smokes marijuana. I know she's ruined...
...first place ... "Rightly carried out, this [interpretive] function need entail no more editorializing than is involved, for example, when an editor decides to print one story and not another. But interpretation requires integrity and knowledge and understanding and balance and detachment . . . News interpretation is all too readily misunderstood. Whenever interpretations differ from the preconceived notions of readers, misunderstanding is likely to creep in. "Objectivity is a very elusive thing. It usually means, to the individual, agreement with his own views . . . This is a problem newspapers can solve in the long run by steadfast news objectivity and honest interpretation...