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British Foreign Secretary Bevin* wrote straight to headquarters to ask why Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper, had interpreted a stray sentence of his to mean that Britain had ditched her Russian alliance. Replied Stalin: "It is now clear that you and I share the same viewpoint with regard to the Anglo-Soviet treaty." To Bevin's reiterated offer to extend the alliance from 20 to 50 years, Stalin answered: "Before extending this treaty, it is necessary to change it." Bevin will discuss possible changes with Stalin when he visits Moscow in March...
...Howard proudly insisted that this movement stands 'above party, class, race, or viewpoint'. . . . He sounded the usual warning against Communism. The M.R.A. classless society is the answer to the class struggle, he said; Communists see this, and that is why they malign the movement. ... I asked whether Buchman hadn't endorsed Hitler. Howard admitted that he once, naively, had endorsed the German Führer. But he emphasized M.R.A.'s record during the resistance and told me of a secret Gestapo document, 126 pages long, which condemns M.R.A. as being 'a Christian garment to world...
...newspaperman and current member of the Harvard Zionist Group's Executive Board, I wish to take exception to all except the first sentence of Robert L. Wald's letter in Friday's Crimson. The phrase "typical Arab viewpoint" is informative, not editorial in nature and is used to better describe to readers who may not be thoroughly familiar with the sides in the controversy just what group is being represented by the speaker. This is a perfectly legitimate journalistic device. "At least in Hashem's opinion" is included for the obvious purpose of preventing a statement, printed as an indirect...
...common men as much alike as possible in pay and social position the world over, the Times chose not-so-common railroad engineers ("theoretically, they see life from the same level-the locomotive-cab window," were above average in pay, but average in viewpoint). The answers filled 16 columns, added up "generally on the melancholy side, with only a faint edging of hope." Excerpts...
...TIME'S domestic news bureaus. Like many another TIMEman who learned his trade in the field, they have brought to their new jobs at home and abroad a first-hand knowledge of the kind of local coverage it takes to make the kind of national and world viewpoint that TIME strives...