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Police were in a swivet; accusations flew thick & fast. Screamed the Soviet news agency, Tass: "French fascist groups will stop at nothing." The French Communist press roared that De Gaullists had instigated the bombings...
...representatives of Russia's Tass news agency make a great show of acting like reporters. But last week such members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors as Columnist David Lawrence and Scripps-Howard Editor Walker Stone thought it was time for a showdown on the question: Are Tassmen in the U.S. bona fide reporters or simply Russian agents gathering intelligence material for Russia's vast espionage system...
Squat, rumpled Mikhail Fedorov, 32, boss of the four-man Washington staff of Russia's Tass, is an aeronautical engineer, and worked at his profession in the U.S.S.R. When he came to Washington three years ago, Fedorov insisted that he also had some training with Tass in Moscow. But most Washington newsmen have come to the conclusion that he knows little of the newspaper business, though they concede that his engineering training is handy for the kind of intelligence reports done by Tass for Russian officials...
...news of the German surrender and war's end until the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story. Now, Allen assured the newsmen that the U.N. delegation would insist on press representation at Kaesong. Said he: "We hope for equal coverage with Tass men." Reporters in the room groaned...
...literally everything we are doing. But if you can tell me one thing on the other side, I'll be very grateful. That's an awfully hard way to make war." Marshall paused and looked around at a group of newsmen which included Evgeny Egorov, chubby, blond Tass correspondent in Tokyo. "We are certainly working at a tremendous disadvantage," the Defense Secretary sighed. "That's democracy-but I think democracy has got to watch itself...