Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens, Editor Gould had fallen for the line that China's Communists were really "agrarian democrats" without binding ties to Moscow. Only last month he voiced a tentative welcome to Mao Tse-tung's Communist Liberation Army as it took over Shanghai. Wrote Gould in his breezy Post: "Shanghai is essentially non-political . . . What it hopes is that a true 'liberation' has now come." It hadn't. Gould found the city's new bosses as hostile to a free press as any other Communists would...
Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless he dropped his "distorted" account and stopped "helping the bandit Chiang resist the People's Revolution." That convinced Gould that he could "no longer run an American newspaper in the American tradition," and he suspended the Post indefinitely...
...years, ever since Insurance-Man C. V. (Neil) Starr bought two struggling sheets and merged them, the Evening Post and Mercury had been a lively landmark of the foreign community (at its peak, the Post sold 15,000 copies of its English edition, 200,000 of its Chinese edition Ta Mei Wan Pao). As early as 1932 Editor Gould warned against Japanese aggression and, when a made-in-Japan puppet Chinese regime took over Shanghai, the Post was bombed and ten Chinese staffers were assassinated; Editor
...familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...
...shakeup in the Moscow high command replaced Foreign Minister Molotov with Andrei Vishinsky, and to the important post of First Deputy Foreign Minister went the man who had cast 25 vetoes at the U.N. Security Council...