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...editorial of February 7, I cannot agree in any part with the stand of the U.N., the "Asiatic League," nor the U. S. as regards the Indonesia question. Though I believe that justice must be accorded the natives, Dutch interests should remain paramount. Because of Indonesia's importance to Netherland economy, an economy near bankruptcy because of the war, it behooves the U. S., for the sake of the E.R.P., to have Dutch interests remain predominant. The means "laissez-faire." The use of the U.N. as suggested by Senator Brewster to coerce the Netherlands into an impossible settlement with...
...time of corporate, impersonal journalism, doughty old John Netherland Heiskell is a holdout. The lean and gimlet-eyed boss of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette snorts at the notion that a newspaper is just a 6% investment: it is first of all an institution, says he, and only incidentally a business. Because his paper is a great success in both roles, numerous buyers have greedily eyed it. Heiskell has always talked to them as sternly as if they were asking for the hand of one of his two daughters...
...toiled assiduously last week to satisfy the demands of protocol at the A.F.L. convention. He arrived in Cincinnati for the big doings as punctiliously as a good Moslem entering Mecca. He donned a proper hand-painted necktie, submitted cheerfully to interviews, and loitered diplomatically in the lobby of the Netherland Plaza Hotel, glad-handing rheumy and belligerent old union patriarchs...
...years, the Gazette (which proudly calls itself the oldest paper west of the Mississippi) had been edited by 74-year-old John Netherland Heiskell. Ever since he lost his son in the war, Editor Heiskell has been looking around for a successor. When he heard Ashmore's speech, he decided he had found his man. This week, liberal, 31-year-old Harry Ashmore went to work as editorial-page editor for the Gazette (circ. 92,000), whose editor calls it "a conservative paper which sometimes disappoints conservatives." Explained Old Editor Heiskell: "I certainly didn't want...
...half used checkbook also showed the stubs of checks made out for a "World's Series Box," and large sums paid out to the Club 100 and The Ritz, St. Regis, and Sherry-Netherland Hotels in New York City...