Word: shirer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous Berlin newscaster, William L. Shirer, has had no successor in the art of wafting a lifted eyebrow on the air. But until Nazi armies got mired in Russia the job of broadcasting from Berlin, though it took gall and patience, could be honorably carried out. After CBS got tough last summer (TIME, July 28), it even seemed that Berlin would relax its clamp, at least on "color broadcasts." Instead, the personal war of nerves between radio correspondents and censors grew bitterer...
These figures do not take account of news commentators on both networks who present their own points of view, which are rarely like America First's. Mr. Flynn made a point of this. He even lumped Raymond Gram Swing and William L. Shirer together with Walter Winchell and Dorothy Thompson as "angels...
...heard Hitler's plans from the mouths of Nazi babes told what he had heard in the most vivid factual firsthand account of Nazi education yet published outside Germany, Education for Death (Oxford; $2). Its author, whose integrity is vouched for by such authorities as William L. Shirer and Douglas Miller, is Michigan-born Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, 42, for eleven years headmaster of the American Colony School (for U.S. diplomats' and businessmen's children) in Berlin...
...renounce a wicked leadership." Has Professor Hocking seen any such evidence in the press? Can he give us any basis for his belief? There has been evidence that many German people are not pro-Nazi; that many of them regret Hitler's power, and deplore the war. But from Shirer's "Berlin Diary" down through the lesser first-hand accounts, no good reporter has suggested that these people have any power, or (even) that most of them are not supporting a war they did not want. Unfortunately, once involved in it, it becomes a war for Germany, as they...
...Blaine '42 of the Student Council were several additions to the Council war libraries which were placed in House libraries last spring. The new books are: "Problem of Modern Europe," by J. H. Jackson and Kerr Lee; "We Have A Future," by Norman Thomas; "Berlin Diary," by William L. Shirer; "You Can't Do Business With Hitler," by Douglas Miller; "Good Neighbors," by Herbert Herring; "My New Order," by Adolph Hitler and Raoul de Roussy de Sales; "Volcanic Isle," by Wilfred Fleischer; "Pattern of Conquest," by Joseph C. Harsh...