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...permanent MVD worker," he added, "he was invariably called in to do that work." Petrov explained that only the secret police chief in each country knows what actual rank each Tass correspondent holds. Petrov's description of Tassmen's MVD mission: to pass themselves off as working newspapermen while they gather information for the Russian secret police...
...Communists were cordial towards the Frenchmen, and they expansively had Western newspapermen round to tea; but they would have no truck whatsoever with the Vietnamese. The Red MPs crisply presented their U.S.-made carbines whenever French officers passed by, but they would not salute the Vietnamese. And the French, bent on a settlement in Indo-China, were quick to snub the Vietnamese delegates in conference; they unquestioningly accepted such Communist terms as "People's Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" instead of the customary "Viet Minh"; they did not protest when the Communists spoke only of the "French Union command...
...this had come up 15 years ago, I would guess the author to be Goebbels. [For every] case where newspapers have [caused a man to be] sent to prison in a miscarriage of justice, [there are] ten where citizens won freedom through the ceaseless efforts of hard-working newspapermen.'' After hearing that, the New York lawyers substituted a watered-down proposal to "condemn as unprofessional press releases and public statements by lawyers . . . which may interfere with a fair trial ..." On getting word of this, the Atlanta Bar Association went further...
...ever more willing to temper justice with mercy . . ." That is the way Foreign Correspondent William Howard Russell sketched President Lincoln in 1861. It was this extraordinary gift for writing closeups (in an age when the camera was in its infancy) that made Russell one of the most famous newspapermen of his day, and one whose work is well worth remembering...
...week, and took the subway across town. At the Palais d'Orsay he went up to his new government offices (a second-floor hotel room), where he started dictating memoranda to his executive' secretary (a part-time animated-cartoon artist). All day the Prime Minister greeted diplomats, newspapermen and Vietnamese well-wishers in courtly turmoil, now and then lapsing into deep meditation and silence...