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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Lindsay Eric Smith cannot be blamed for his probably unintentional misrepresentations in "One Man's Look at Russia" [TIME, Dec. 17]. As he says himself, his visit to Russia was brief. "No favorable account of Western overtures or conditions can ever reach the Russian public," pessimistically declares Mr. Smith. He is wrong. The Voice of America reaches Russia . . . Soviet publications have repeatedly denounced the Voice. If it did not reach Russia, it would not have been mentioned in the Soviet press...
...Smith exhibits surprising ignorance when he says: ". . . It is very doubtful whether the Russians are capable of conversion, even if we could reach their ears." Oksana Kasenkina, former Soviet schoolteacher, jumped to freedom from the third floor window of the Soviet consulate in New York, Lieut. Peter Pirogov flew his bomber from Soviet Ukraine to the U.S. zone in Germany to seek freedom ... In Mr. Smith's own England lives former Red Air Force Colonel Grigory Tokaev, who also escaped . . . These are only a few of many thousands who have been converted. Half a million of Russian displaced persons...
Because newsmen seem to have a talent for getting involved in misadventures which rarely reach the record books, I asked our correspondents to tell me about their most harrowing, amusing and exciting experiences while working on TIME stories during 1951. Although, of course, many of our reporters were risking their lives, a number of their accounts were so engaging that I thought you would like to hear some of them...
...Long? Duff, Lodge & Co. were as certain as ever that things would never reach that pass. But the strain of waiting was beginning to tell. In Kansas, which claims Ike as a favorite son, one Eisenhower pillar said last week: "If Ike is not available, we will move over to Taft. The important thing to do is to win the election." Said another: "People come to me and ask, 'How long can we wait...
Peace or War? Still, many correspondents and military men on the scene expected this one to yield, as others had. They expected an early peace; they could feel it in the air and in their bones. Another school of thought holds that the Communists never intend to reach final agreement, that they are using the truce conferences as a ruse to protect their buildup for a crushing offensive, just as the Chinese Reds, while fighting the Nationalists in the civil war, had made treacherous use of truces to gather strength for the next attack. The pessimists point...