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Plan Eclipse was the code name for the occupation and rule of the U.S.'s part of postwar Germany. As announced last week by the War Department, the plan had been worked out in close collaboration with the British. Their own plans, as yet unannounced in detail, probably were similar in method and approach...
...taking the view that this was an issue between itself and the press, rather than between itself and the public. On this narrow ground and in a self-righteous mood, the Army last week disaccredited four correspondents who had visited Berlin without permission, and also issued a new censorship code. The new code not only disallowed all stories about such things as battle tactics and troop movements which might give information to the Japanese. But it also forbade "unauthenticated, inaccurate or false reports, misleading statements and rumors" (thereby setting the Army up as sole judge of the truth) and "reports...
These provisions had been in the earlier code and in general had not been abused by the Army. But their repromulgation after V-E day raised important questions. Did the Army recognize that the war in Europe had ended? At what point does brass-hattism end and a truly free press begin? So long as all U.S. newsmen in Europe are obliged to wear Army uniforms, carry Army credentials, depend on Army transportation and send their dispatches by Army courtesy-to do business, in fact, only as "guests" of the Army-the U.S. public could not expect...
...capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that has ruled his life is a suicidal anachronism in a world threatened by global gangsters...
Brazilians last week still had no electoral code, no legal political parties, no idea when the promised Presidential elections would be held. But they did have a new candidate. War Minister Eurico Caspar Dutra's gold-braided general's hat was pitched into the ring. As the Government's entry, Dutra replaced President Getulio Vargas, who a fortnight ago decided that he was "not a candidate...