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Last week the correspondents who have been raptly following the great reversals of a staggering month brought a new, sardonic note into their stories. They had something concrete to write about. There were the German-Russian division of Poland (see p. 29), Russia's quick Baltic grab that snipped...
Finally, on June 21, pontoons, cables, and all were in readiness, and the Squalus was lifted. But again there was disaster: "The bow came up like a mad tornado, out of control. Pontoons were smashed, hoses cut, and, I might add, hearts were broken."
No famed U. S. newspaper correspondent was in Poland when the War began. Some of them had stayed in London and Paris, waiting for another Munich. Some who had thought that Poland would hold out for weeks or months were caught napping. Others had looked for a big battle on...
To help readers distinguish between war news and war propaganda last week Manchester Boddy's enterprising Los Angeles Daily News and Evening News adopted a system of labeling European dispatches. The Daily News used alphabetical symbols. OP stood for "official propaganda," SA meant "seems authentic," "V" meant "verified." Over...
The New York Times was indignant over French and British censors who were holding up its cables. In an editorial the Times said: "This newspaper will, as far as possible, make plain the sources of its news dispatches. It will not print rumors as fact." Same day the Times announced...