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Sponsors: the 100-odd members of the San Francisco Press Club, helped by contributions from all over the nation. They started the project immediately after Army Colonel George S. Clarke gave the pressmen a vivid, moving description of the suffering of U.S. soldiers on the battlefields of Bataan...
Like the troops the correspondents on each side were subject to capture, killing (by decision of an umpire). Reckless "bravery" did not pay. If captured, pressmen were trucked away to the enemy's prison camp, often 200 miles behind the lines, sometimes a full day's drive on truck-blocked roads. They were not released for 24 hours lest they return to the action and give useful information to their side. Amid the continual surprises of open warfare reporters spent half their time fleeing over back roads to escape capture by unexpected parties of the enemy...
...newspapers of the U.S. were angry. They had been left out. Prime Minister Winston Churchill had carried along British reporters-"literary men" from the Ministry of Information-but Mr. Roosevelt had not. The first flash confirming the meeting had come from Ottawa a few minutes before the White House pressmen had been allowed to release it. Then London had blanketed the U.S. report by providing all the interesting details. The British were told more under censorship than the U.S. without...
...inquisitive pressmen, Stylist Viereck crooned: "I am not anti-British." In his preface, he grates that Britain's Parliament is "hagridden by a few families welded together by ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...
...hours last week a rumor gutted the Minneapolis morning Tribune and evening Times-Tribune. Pressmen huddled together outside the Tribune building on Newspaper Row in Fourth Street. Reporters, some panicky and angry, some stunned or recklessly casual, gravitated toward the bars-to hold a wake for their jobs...