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CRIMSON experience or summer work on a small newspaper is the best introduction to journalism, "New York Times" foreign correspondent and Nieman Fellow Dana A. Schmidt told a conference on careers at Kirkland House, yesterday. Bernad DeVoto '18 discussed the opportunities for the free-lance writer, while editor Arthur A. Clark '29 reported on the publishing field. Louis M. Lyons, Nieman Fellowship curator, was moderator...
Nieman Fellow Dana A. Schmidt, who will speak on "Opportunities in Newspaper Work," has been a foreign correspondent for both the United Press and the New York Times. He was the sole American correspondent in Czechoslovakia, until he left the country to avoid arrest a few months...
Regarding the degree of support which the Communists command in Czechoslovakia, Schmidt cited the difficulty of testing public opinion in a totalitarian state. "The Communist organizations have gained membership since the 1948 coup," he speculated, "mostly because of opportunitists who joined for personal advantage. The membership of the Communist Party itself has probably been reduced by the purges. I don't think they've many converts; they have probably lost converts among the industrial workers, who resent the speed-up and shock-worker campaigns...
...great majority of the confirmed anti Communists, as far as Schmidt was able to determine, have no hope of an internal revolution that could overturn the present regime, and look to a general East West war as the best chance for bringing Czechoslovakia into the Western camp...
While at Harvard, Schmidt will study mostly in the History department, with a view to supplementing his knowledge of European affairs. He will concentrate especially on Russia and Communism...