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...sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators. They quickly turned out copies for 56 papers and news agencies (including Russia's Tass), which had ordered the transcript at 12½? a page...
...however, when he found himself whipsawed by U.S. negligence and fumbling, by British hard-dealing, and by the venal Majlis, every member of which would like to be Premier himself. Lately, Razmara made several safety-first concessions to Russia, e.g., banning the Voice of America and BBC broadcasts, allowing Tass, the Soviet news agency, to operate freely...
...parallel: "White House reporters are responsible to the White House . . . and if they weren't, they wouldn't be reporters for long." Miss Small would be interested to meet Lawrence Todd and Robert Hall, who have covered White House press conferences for many years. As correspondent for Russia's Tass News Agency, Mr. Todd writes for Pravda and Izvestia; Mr. Hall covers for the Daily Worker. Neither of these reporters, we would suggest, is responsible to the White House...
...State Department counted red Russian noses in the U.S., last week reported that the Soviet embassy staff in Washington, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, plus assorted Tass correspondents, Amtorg men, children, wives and babushki totaled 410. Total U.S. citizens-diplomats and dependents (113), correspondents (5), fur buyers (12), etc. -now in the U.S.S.R...
...Pentagon. It was also a way of telling the Russians what was what. When Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and Washington newsmen were discussing the U.S. decision to draw a defense line in front of Formosa, Japan and the Philippines, Johnson looked around and asked: "Is the Tass man here?" Mikhail ("Mike") Fedorov of Russia's Tass news agency quickly turned and walked away, shaking his lowered head in evident embarrassment. "He heard what you said," a newsman told the Secretary. Replied Johnson: "That's all right. I wanted him to hear that we had drawn the line...