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...cheer by reporting that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News'?, belligerent William Stoneman: "The biggest scare of all was given by the President of the United States...
...taxi, told the driver to "Head on down Piccadilly," lest even his friends hear the address of the rendezvous. The New York Herald Tribune's William W. White shoved off without explanation, leaving a large, tweedy wardrobe in the apartment of bewildered friends. Chicago Daily Newsman William Stoneman, just returned to London from a long vacation, wired his boss abruptly: "Taking long vacation." After A.P. Cameraman Harrison B. Roberts had departed, his boss got worried, called Army headquarters. The best the Army could say was: "Patience...
...maneuvers of the war. Besides teaching the troops the A.B.C.s of both assault and defense, its primary purpose was rationalization. For the benefit of the British, the Army trotted out a really remarkable array of ordnance. For the U.S., the British censor passed articles like that of William H. Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News and New York Post: "If it were not for the R.A.F. and the Home Guard, an invading German Army equipped with Panzer divisions and several divisions of infantry could roam England, spreading havoc for at least one week, and at the end of that time...
Impressed with contra-fifth-column measures, Chicago Daily News's William H. Stoneman, no scaremonger, cabled his paper: "A good many people who have been living in comparative security are going to be shot-and speedily. The most sensational story of the war will be broken within the near future...
...Stoneman also wrote about "a British officer with one of the most famous names in England" who went rabbit-snaring by night with two poacher privates, got caught by French gendarmes and charged 1,000 francs (which he would...