Word: strout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attack on the New Statesman was written by Richard Strout, Washington correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and briefly U.S. correspondent for the New Statesman during a period when, as he said, he was "unfamiliar with its prejudices." Wrote Strout: "There is something uncanny in the way New Statesman dispatches from all over the world . . . converge ultimately on the faults of the U.S. . . . Doubts arise sometimes as to whether the New Statesman is not merely following the party line. This hardly seems possible, yet the evidence is baffling...
...Peace. The evidence, said Strout, included Martin's favorite contention that the U.S. is trying to bring on World War III; that General MacArthur disobeyed United Nations directives when he crossed the 38th parallel in Korea. Martin bad also stated that Red China had been promised that MacArthur would not cross the parallel. Said Strout: there is no evidence that either of these statements is true. In truth, Strout added this week, the New Statesman itself "has encouraged the spread of the war by enlisting sympathy for the Chinese aggressors...