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This was, first of all, expert psychological warfare. Wrote New York Post Columnist Samuel Grafton: "The slogans offered are German slogans, not American, British or Russian slogans; Germans are invited to fight, not for our sakes, but for their own. . . . This is political blitz." Secondly, it may be a political maneuver, Russia's latest attempt to get the real second front it wants in Europe. The Russians may hope that the German Committee and its manifesto, combined with the Red Army's summer advance, will convince U.S. and British leaders that they had better get to Berlin fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: East Wind | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Columnist Luce had written mostly about Congress, The column's title: Here the Gavel Fell. Its motto: "Don't undersell your Congress." Her weekly reports ran 1,200 to 1,600 words, gave soldiers a brilliantly readable summary of the political week. When she wrote, early in May, that home-front journalists were predicting that WPBoss Donald Nelson might be on the way out, she added a gag making the rounds of Congressional cloakrooms: "Don't be too sure. An awful lot of the rubber we are short of went into the construction of Donald Nelson." When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Here the Gavel Fell | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Department explained that the column had contained the writer's views on controversial political questions, and therefore had no place in an Army publication. The Department did not explain why this rule was not applied to Columnist Drew Pearson, who is also published in Roundup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Here the Gavel Fell | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...bonquet of editorial stinkwoods to columnist Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald, another frustrated sports writer suddenly turned Advisor and Chastiser to the world in general and the people who fight the war in particular...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...remind "columnist" Cunningham of that old Chicago proverb" "Man who criticize chef should first learn to boil water...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

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