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That story reminded me of a remark made by one of America's top flight newspapermen-Malcolm Bingay, Editorial Director of the Detroit Free Press: "Reading TIME," he said, "is like talking after hours to an extraordinarily well-informed group of newspaper reporters...
...newspapermen: "A human being confronts you and you don't regard him as a human being at all. To you he's an item with skin around...
Since Nov. 12, 1942, some 140 American diplomats, newspapermen and relief workers formerly accredited to Marshal Pétain's Vichy Government have been interned at Lourdes, waiting for negotiations for their exchange to be completed. This week the State Department was advised that Germany had thrown a cordon of 55 troops around the group, was preparing to evacuate them all to Germany. Exchange negotiations were being taken over by the Reich "for its own purposes." Angrily the State Department protested this "autocratic action." Last message from the group, received two months ago, said they were bored, anxious, otherwise...
With the $3,000 he got for his farm gone and with no job open to him, Ausborn had to go on relief. Every extra dollar he could scrounge he put into more pamphlets. He warned newspapermen, police and the Canadian Legion of the Bundists in their midst, and of Hitler's plans for conquest. They paid even less attention to him after he came back from fighting as a volunteer for Loyalist Spain; he was called a Red and a troublemaker. Most of his family turned against him. Embittered and socially ostracized they asked...
...rely for most of his information on communiques, the Army newspaper The Red Star, other military journals. News beats were out because "Moscow is not the kind of place in which you pull fast ones." But he was allowed to dispatch more human interest and feature material than the newspapermen. He had to submit to double censorship (press & radio) and walk several miles through deep snow and blackout to the studios to do his stint...