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They never have to wait long. In the aging brick office of the Oregon Statesman, seven blocks downtown from the state capitol in Salem, Publisher Charles Arthur Sprague has probably already tapped out his views for the next day's "It Seems to Me" column. Twenty years of such thoughtful, solid editorial guidance has given 63-year-old Republican Charlie Sprague the prestige of an elder statesman, made the Statesman, despite its small (15,940) circulation, one of the clearest voices in the Pacific Northwest...
...were trying to give some democratic substance to De Gaulle's skeleton administration, Auriol's years of experience in the Chamber were invaluable. He became more than a parliamentary tactician. Long experience and his reflections after the defeat had made the Auriol of Algiers a wise elder statesman, who forced himself to think deeply about the fundamental defects in the parliamentary system he had served...
...Internal Matter? In Boise, Idaho, the Statesman cried: "The United States is almost an accessory to a crime if it supports Perón in any way, and if it does not flatly denounce the present campaign to destroy free speech and a free press in Argentina." The Washington Post added: "All over the free world the censor is beating out the newspaperman. One light after the other is being extinguished . . . Is this an internal matter?" The Chicago Sun-Times joined with the Sydney, Australia Morning Herald in calling Perón a tyrant. The Richmond Times-Dispatch...
Greenberg, associate editor of Commentary (TIME, Jan. 29), hustled over to another liberal weekly, the anti-Communist New Leader. Like the New Republic, which a fortnight ago trounced its British cousin, the New Statesman & Nation (TIME, March 19), for its anti-American line, the New Leader last week was delighted to further the latest bit of soul-searching on the left wing. It printed Greenberg's letter and added editorially: "Since the Nation has campaigned for many years against censorship in all its forms, we cannot understand why it should itself now indulge in this form of censorship...
Died. Kijuro Shidehara, 78, Japanese statesman; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. Shidehara, onetime Ambassador to Washington, was an advocate of peaceful expansion in a country overrun by military fanatics. Because he opposed Japan's 1931 march on Manchuria, the warlords unseated him from the Foreign Ministry. After 14 years in retirement, he became Prime Minister for six months following World...