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Besides George Marshall, three unofficial U.S. tourists-Communist Boss William Z. Foster, Republican Harold Stassen and Henry Agard Wallace-came home from Europe. Foster and Stassen, quiet men both, were almost lost sight of in the general commotion which hatless Henry Wallace streamed behind him like a kind of untidy halo...
Almost as quiet was Harold Stassen, self-avowed G.O.P. presidential aspirant, headed homeward after an eight-week junket which had touched almost every country in Europe. He had spent most of his time with businessmen, or conferring with political leaders. He had seen Stalin (see PRESS). Last week, in Stockholm, his path crossed Henry Wallace's-the third of the trio. They did not meet. Said Stassen of Wallace: "I did not come here to listen to him." Said Wallace of Stassen: "Maybe he feared he would get tainted...
...Newman moved, a tourist disclosed a fine compliment that was paid the Trib by Premier Stalin himself. The week before, at a midnight interview in the Kremlin, Minnesota's Harold Stassen had asked how come the Herald Tribune could not get a man into Moscow. Said Stalin, after a quick check with Molotov: "A part of the American correspondents have an ill mood toward us. But this Herald Tribune case is an accident. It is an outstanding newspaper." (It was an outstanding accident, for the paper had been trying to get a man to Moscow for more than...
Correspondents wondered why Visitor Stassen had not mentioned other hardship cases. Asked the Philadelphia Bulletin's blunt Carl McArdle: "Governor, are you on the Herald Tribune payroll?" No, Stassen grinned, he had just happened to run into Geoffrey Parsons Jr., editor of the Paris edition, who had told him about the Trib's troubles...
While he was at it, Stassen had asked Stalin about censorship. "It will be difficult in our country to dispense with censorship," his host told him. "Molotov tried to do it several times. ... In the autumn of 1945 censorship was repealed. I was on leave and they started to write stones that Molotov forced me to go on leave and then wrote stories that I should return and fire him. These stories depicted the Soviet Government as a sort of zoological garden. Of course, our people got angry and they had to resume censorship...