Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wrath) Steinbeck, the Reds' favorite U.S. proletarian novelist even after the cold war began, is now an outspoken antiCommunist. Last week, in Italy on assignment from Collier's, Steinbeck heard a haunting voice from his past. In an open letter published in the Communist L'Unità (circ. 800,000), Italy's largest daily, a contributor named Ezio Taddei asked what Steinbeck thought of 1) the wickedness of American soldiers, 2) germ warfare in Korea, and 3) General Ridgway. Cried Taddei: "Let your voice be heard, John Steinbeck, and it will be welcome...
...Unità took another beating last week from another American, Michael Stern, Rome correspondent for Fawcett Publications (True, True Confessions). Ten months ago, Stern wrote a sensational story for True that two former American OSS men had killed their superior officer, Major William Holohan, in 1944 in Italy, to help Communist partisans (TIME, Aug. 27). L'Unità fired back at Stern's charges against the Reds: Stern is a "false journalist" who is really acting as a spy for the U.S. State Department...
Reporter Stern slapped a libel suit on L'Unità, and last week he won it. Two L'Unità writers and the paper's assistant director sheepishly told a Rome tribunal that they meant "no reflection on Mr. Stern's professional honor." The court ordered the paper to pay 500,000 lire ($800) in damages, plus 350,000 lire ($560) in costs and fines...
...night last week a U.S. Information Service film unit went to the schoolyard in the farming village of Manpori . . . After the show was over, an old farmer . . . stood up to thank the Americans. "You have left your great cities to come here," he said. "We are happy that the men from America are with us-and we hope that they will stay." All over South Korea a newly proud people were anxiously hoping the same thing. Remembering the Russians north of the 38th parallel, another Korean said, half apologetically: "We know that many American leaders think Korea should be given...
...more energetic went out for some activity--the Glee Club, orchestra, Band and instrumental clubs held tryouts. And the ROTC unit and Field Artillery Club held a "get acquainted session...