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...Partial? But beyond that, and far more important, the statement was a perfect illustration of the split within the State Department over U.S. China policy. It had been drafted by State's Director of Far Eastern Affairs, quiet, soft-spoken John Carter Vincent, whose last trip to China had been in the company of Henry Wallace in 1944. As a leader of the bloc which believes U.S. policy is too partial to Chiang, Vincent had already been labeled a stooge for Yenan...
...unique even in my experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal who assumes that Puerto Rico's troubles could be solved in short order if only some New Dealer would come along, ease...
...press is the question of the degree of appeal which such a combination will have for the nation's reading public. As compared with the original NR, this appeal is great. The drawings and cartoons which are interspersed throughout the magazine; the addition of such well-known writers as Vincent Sheean and Teodore H. ("Thunder Out of China") White; the more striking cover--all should serve to increase its popularity. Lessor-known, but highly competent journalists, including UN news-covering Jane Bedell and a former Newsweek editor Thomas Whiteside, have been added as assistant editors...
...William R. W. Fitz, Leo M. Flynn, Wallace J. Flynn, Thomas H. Gannon, Peter Garland, Ronald F. Garvey, Charles R. Glynn, Henry W. Goethals, John C. Grady, Charles B. Gudaitis, Howard E. Houston, William J. Jackson, 2nd Robert F. Kennedy, Paul Lazzaro, Dean F. Markham, Willard H. McDaniel, Vincent P. Moravec, Captain Cleo A. O'Donnell, Jr., Philip K. O'Donnell, Ralph Petrillo, Chester M. Pierce, Nicholas Rodis, Sidney O. Smith, Jr., Thomas E. Tennant, Co-Manager William P. Hall, and Co-Manager Robert B. Palmer...
Urged on new readers at a "special Henry Wallace rate" ($5 a year), the new New Republic had a printing of 85,000 copies, more than double its usual press run. Better-known new contributors (Vincent Sheean, Chinahand Theodore White) had "writing arrangements," would have no say in editorial direction...