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This involved a breach of a confidential relationship, since such blueprints . . . are released to industry sources and suppliers . . . on a confidential basis." G.M. Customer. The Wall Street Journal's President Bernard Kilgore was surprised but not distressed by G.M.'s embargo and ad withdrawal. Said he: "For years almost everything -in Detroit has been 'off the record.' We just decided not to play it that way. It isn't journalism." Kilgore agrees that there may be honest differences of opinion over what should and should not be printed, and that "our editors are perfectly willing...
...only way the West can win the cold war, said Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco in an interview with Newspaper Editor Roy Howard last week, is to slap an immediate embargo on all trade with Russia and her satellites. Franco's proposal found informal support in a surprising place: among the Far Eastern experts in the U.S. State Department...
...Asia, their argument runs, an embargo would really hurt. "Take China," said one specialist. "A large amount of her industry is based on British and U.S. machinery installed before the Communists took over. China needs parts and replacements for those industrial units. Cut off all exports to Communist countries and China wouldn't be able to get such replacements, nor would her Communist allies be able to get them...
Opening the Curtain. No, replied Stassen, the new plan would not add to Soviet war potential "in any significant way." The Eisenhower Administration believes that the U.S. does not face "an early or inevitable world war," and if war should appear inevitable, the U.S. could easily slap a complete embargo on trade with the Communists. Moreover, the trade might even move the Soviet economy in the direction of peaceful consumer goods. Stassen said. "We are opening up the Iron Curtain to what we call merchants of a better life...
...when editors started calling Pearson to find out why he had broken the release date, no one was more surprised than Pearson himself. He had not even been to the briefing, or known about the one-week embargo. Actually, Pearson had got hold of the film script long before, had broadcast an H-bomb description three months ago with almost as many details as last week's column. No one had said anything about it. Last week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about...