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...rush for deadlines, only LIFE'S Milton Orshefsky was not on hand when Vieira arrived with the wounded from Korea. Only Orshefsky was not present at the Air-Force-conducted press conference. And only Orshefsky, arriving well after the newspapermen had left, was so late that the Air Force had had time to check Vieira's record and inform him that Vieira had strayed slightly from the facts...
...Correspondent Handleman and U.P.'s Tokyo bureau chief, Earnest Hoberecht, had asked the Army for some kind of military censorship. This and other such suggestions had been turned down by General MacArthur in favor of "voluntary censorship" (TIME, July 24). This ruling failed to recognize that newspapermen might honestly misjudge the importance of a particular piece of information. Nor did it allow for the fact that in the fiercely competitive business of news gathering there are bound to be men whose self-restraint will give way before their desire for a scoop...
From the discharged newspapermen came loud and immediate outcries. Setting up a "League Against the Suppression of Freedom of Speech," they posted themselves on street corners, harangued former co-workers for their support. Said one discharged reporter: "It's all right to purge me [because] I'm a fellow traveller . . . But there are many unjustly accused...
Some Japanese liberals feared that a dangerous precedent had been set, and wondered how the power of mass dismissal on ideological grounds might be used once the occupation had ended. But among the Japanese newspapermen the appeals of the discharged Communists met with little success, and few believed the Communist assertion that innocent people had been fired. Said balding, stocky Shoji Yasuda, managing editor of Tokyo's Yomiuri: "These people have been under surveillance for a long time and there's no mistake." The general public, conditioned by the Korean war and previous occupation directives against Japan...
...neighbors dropped in on the Shadricks to speak their sympathy and leave quietly. It was the newspapermen from out of town who asked the fancy questions. What was Kenny fighting for? "Against some kind of government," said Theodore Shadrick simply. Where was Korea? He didn't know-out there somewhere, where his boy had been killed...