Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engage Russia in the Battle for Germany (at Moscow in March). But last week the Battle for France, also an important sector of the Battle for Europe, was well on the way to being lost. Arthur Koestler, brilliant novelist (Darkness at Noon) and acute observer of European affairs, reported (in the N.Y. Times Sunday magazine) what he had just seen in France. His report read like an obituary of Europe's hopes...
...Topping this, there is also an elaborate spy system throughout the secretariat, where the Government servants of one department report for the heads of other departments. There are Moslem League cells throughout the secretariat, and often the League's paper Dawn reprints secret letters and memoranda taken from Government files. The League's avowed purpose, to sabotage the Interim Government, is being rapidly achieved...
...Communists blew their horns and the notes were echoed from the provinces. The Party had accomplishments to report and it seized an occasion-the 48th birthday of its magnetic leader, Luis Carlos Prestes-to tell the world. Throughout Brazil, at dozens of picnics and other celebrations, the comrades sang such ideological lyrics as "Take off your shirt, Joe, the time of Fascism has passed."* They also saluted the past year's items of progress: 1) emergence as the Hemisphere's largest Communist Party (120,000 militant members); 2) collection of $600,000 for bigger Party newspapers...
...Latin America? Four months ago, the New York Times decided to find out. On a 16,000-mile tour of every capital south of the Rio Grande it sent burly William (Bill) Lawrence, onetime Moscow correspondent. Last week, Lawrence was back and the Times printed his colorless, cautious report. Highlights...
...harried career, the War Assets Administration has come in for some businesslike spankings. Last week the brush was laid on for fair. A House committee, in its final report on surplus property disposal, charged WAA with everything from "sloppy business methods" to "catastrophic failure." It also charged "inconsistent pricing, unexplainable delays, unreliable, misleading and inadequate advertising." For hard-working WAA Boss Robert Littlejohn the committee had kind words. Nevertheless, the committee's conclusion read like a black book of business sins...