Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well might "MacArthur wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home," or at any other point on our shores; does Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press [TIME, March 15] consider the Hearstian kiss of death any more lethal than the Pendergast kiss of death...
From there on, Czechoslovakia will probably follow the Communist pattern established in Poland for controlling foreign publications. Officially, there is Government censorship of all foreign publications, but Government policy allows almost all publications to pass the censor so that freedom of the press can be claimed. The real censorship is exercised by the state distributing agency, which can fail to distribute any publication it dislikes...
...LIFE could be distributed freely. It was the only country freely visited by people from other Russian-dominated countries and, therefore, almost the last portal through which the publications of the Western democracies could find their way to the countries behind the Iron Curtain. As this letter goes to press, TLI has written Czechoslovakia off as another example of the fact, which TLI has learned the hard way, that the war of ideas is a real...
...School now on loan to the Chinese Ministry of Justice in Nanking, also tried to clear up some misapprehensions about China. Wrote Dean Pound: "There is by no means the general condition of demoralization, corruption and inefficiency which is portrayed in American newspapers. . . . In the clippings from the American press, which my friends send me from time to time, I can't recognize the land in which I am living. There is no censorship of the press. . . . The papers . . . which I see every day are as critical of the government as they like and are allowed a liberty...
...President's special adviser on Palestine. But the meeting exploded into violent argument. Niles is pro-partition. Henderson is anti-partition. Mr. Truman broke it up by walking out, bitterly declaiming: "This gets us nowhere. All I want is a statement I can read tomorrow at my press conference...