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Their enemy was Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, who had inherited "Ol Gene" Talmadge's hatred for "them lying newspapers." For a while, Herman had tried to fight his press critics with scurrilous attacks in his own weekly Statesman ("The People-Editor; "Herman E. Talmadge-Associate Editor"). Then Herman's men introduced three tough press-control bills into the state legislature...
Kingsley Martin, anti-American editor of Britain's pinko New Statesman and Nation (circ. 87,156), frequently writes as though the U.S., not Russia, is pushing the world toward atomic war. When Editor Martin heard U.S. Columnist Stewart Alsop assure Britain on a BBC program that "a certain left-wing British magazine," i.e., the New Statesman, was all wrong in any such interpretation of U.S. policy, Martin's feathers ruffled...
Piqued Editor Martin pecked back at the Columnist Brothers Alsop. "For light relief," he scoffed in the New Statesman, "you ought to read [them]. Joseph Alsop is a familiar figure in this country. He eats and talks in labour circles, describing himself as a socialist. I often wonder whether he makes the same proud claim in Washington. His brother Stewart [says that] ... no one in America really wants war . . . That some people want war, however, is very clear indeed from the Alsop brothers' own column, which went so far the other day as to say that the World...
...Francis Adams Truslow, retiring head of the New York Curb Exchange (see BUSINESS). Truslow's assignment: to provide expert financial advice and get the Point Four ball rolling in Brazil. Though Miller is sure to hear Brazilian gripes against U.S. price lids on coffee, Getulio Vargas is one statesman shrewd enough to grasp the equality-of-sacrifice idea that the U.S. hopes to get over to its Latin American neighbors...
...Third Force. Last week the New Statesman outdid itself with an article by a timeworn Socialist, G. D. H. Cole, who keeps saying he is not a Communist fellow traveler. Cole explained his view of Far Eastern events: "I looked on the war in Korea as essentially a civil and not an international war ... I wanted the North to win. The Government of South Korea appeared to me to be a hopelessly reactionary puppet affair...