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Tongue in cheek, Moscow Correspondent Paul Winterton cabled London's News Chronicle: "With that spontaneity which is such a happy feature of the Persians at their best, 20,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Teheran, called for the resignation of the Said Government." There were other demonstrations in the northern section of Iran, occupied by the Red Army since...
...week for the Russians, but, according to Paul Winterton of the London News Chronicle, the people of Moscow seemed to expect something bigger still. Since the Red Armies were about as busy as they could possibly be on the Baltic and Balkan flanks, "something bigger" could only come in the center-in Poland. "What's coming," said Winterton, "will make what's gone by look like a sideshow...
There was an embarrassed silence, and then the London News Chronicle's Paul Winterton got up slowly. "I should like to add to Mr. Kendrick's remarks," said he. "Not only is our only source of news about the Russian fronts what we read in the papers from your correspondents, but furthermore we consider that a poor source. . . . We think we could do much better work if we were allowed to go to the front...
Taking issue with his colleagues, Reuters' dry, Scottish John Gibbons declared: "I disagree very sharply with what Mr. Winterton said. I definitely do not feel that the work of Soviet war correspondents has been bad. . . . They have been to Leningrad and Stalingrad. . . . Even if they were the most incompetent nincompoops in the world they would write stirring articles about those things...
...London last week, the delegates of 27 States who recently met at Evian-les-Bains to discuss aiding European refugees set up their new permanent bureau. Earl Winterton, lofty Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was elected chairman.* His first job was to hear complaints from Britain's own dominions. The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council, spokesmaned by Sir Leopold Moore, angrily protested a rumor that 500 German Jewish families would be sent to settle in Rhodesia. "Why," exploded Sir Leopold, "can we not have instead 500 British colonists who are not Jews...