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...BERLIN DIARY (369 pp.]-William L Shirer-Knopf...
Late in 1940, when Broadcaster William Lawrence Shirer found it wise to clear out of Germany, he contrived to smuggle out several pounds of his day-to-day private notes on the Nazis and their antics. These became Berlin Diary, which nearly a million Americans bought for a sideline view of Hitler Germany in action. Now, on a return visit to Berlin, Shirer conducts his readers into the whipped team's locker room, where all is groans, whimpers-and hopes of war between the U.S. and Russia...
That some of the German people consider their defeat a dirty trick to be revenged some day is hardly spot news. Shirer, however, is convinced that the feeling runs wide and deep. As early as 1943, with the war's end still two years off, the feeling of being put upon by the world began creeping into the General Staff's hush-hush memoranda, many of which Shirer quotes practically in full. It reaches a climax in Hitler's absurd will, and is still, says Shirer, an article of faith today. Though expressed repeatedly...
...Gabriel Heatter. 5. William L, Shirer...
...Nation and CBS's Invitation to Music, Mutual's Meet the Press, ABC's broadcast of John Hersey's Hiroshima, the New York Herald Tribune's radio columnist, John Crosby. Awards for "outstanding reporting and interpretation of the news" went to Commentator William L. Shirer and the Columbia Broadcasting System-which recently (TIME, March 31) dropped Shirer's program...