Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how, and through whom, the Germans are to find out was a subject of much controversy last week. OWI's Director Elmer Davis, back from SHAEF, took the view that the free, contentious press of the U.S. and Britain would be a bad thing for the Germans to get a look at. Accordingly, said Davis, U.S., British and other Allied newspapers and magazines would be barred from Germany for "an indefinite period of military occupation." Said he: "Germany is a sick man, and right now can get only what the doctors prescribe. Later on, he will have...
...reparations man, said in Washington that Germany should be stripped of all capacity to make armaments, but not completely de-industrialized. When he and his colleagues join the Big Three reparations commission in Moscow, they will probably find the Russians in general agreement with this view. But they will also find a basic, significant difference in the Russian and U.S.-British approach to the reparations problem. The U.S. and Britain regard reparations largely as a means to.an end-the pacification of Germany. The Russians are interested in reparations for the sake of reparations. To them (and to some...
...during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing...
...Kennedy's misdeed as a shillelagh, he an nounced that henceforth all newsmen in Europe would be let in on the Army's confidences chiefly because "I have engaged to be personally responsible for the good faith of each press representative." The Army persisted in taking the view that this was an issue between itself and the press, rather than between itself and the public. On this narrow ground and in a self-righteous mood, the Army last week disaccredited four correspondents who had visited Berlin without permission, and also issued a new censorship code. The new code...
...Some people say the standard of.living of the American worker will be reduced, if tariffs are cut down. We do not hold this view. We think that high wages result from high productivity, imaginative and progressive managerial leadership and good union organization-and not from tariffs...