Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expelled for writing anything that the Communist governments do not like. Under the severe laws governing military and economic espionage, that could be as simple a thing as reporting the amount of money in circulation-or a host of other common facts & figures openly published by the Western democratic press. If a correspondent manages to get the Press Ministry's permission to leave the capital of his country, an official guide is usually assigned to see to it that he sees only favorable things. As a result, much of what happens outside of the Balkans' capitals...
...foreign correspondents who learned their trade under the auspices of the free U.S. or British press, the kind of restricted news coverage that the Balkans Communist states now have to offer is, to say the least, frustrating. It is all the more to the credit of those correspondents who remain, therefore, that they are doing a tough job as best they can until the Iron Curtain closes completely or it again becomes possible to report freely what is going on in the Balkans...
...Johnson was making fast progress towards unifying the armed forces. But there were plenty of skeptics who asserted that unity was still only headline-deep. Last week as his No. 1 assistant, publicity-conscious Louis Johnson surprised everybody by picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack either as an administrator or as a military mind...
...vice president of Pullman Inc. to take $12,000 as Johnson's top hand. Gruff and imperious, but well-liked, Steve Early could enforce Johnson's ban on competitive publicity stunts by the services, do much to win the boss a good press. Moreover, Early had once given his old friend Johnson the best advice of his life. When Roosevelt broke his promise to Johnson and appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson as Secretary of War in 1940, Johnson went off to California in a mighty dudgeon. Republicans tried to win him over. Early followed Johnson to California, coaxed...
...winter, the Cominform countries had tightened the screws of their economic blockade. The Tito press last week indignantly reported the basis on which the Russian satellite nations were prepared to do business with Tito's country. For one tractor, Poland or Czechoslovakia asked 377 tons of bauxite; for one truck engine, 60,000 tons of maize; for one motorcycle, 180 tons of raw gypsum...