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Right & Wrong. Stewart joined the New York Times in the mid-'30s, principally because of its reputation as the fairest and most reliable of U.S. papers. He still thinks it is, but by his own standards he did not find it perfect. During the Spanish Civil War the Times bent backward to be neutral and impartial, and Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger is quoted as saying: "I confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides. . . ." Ken Stewart's reaction was that Publisher Sulzberger was glad he was not "compelled to choose...
...campaign had already netted the Japanese the most solid series of benefits since they cut off the Burma Road: 1) they devastated one of the fairest, richest corners of China, the Tungting Lake area of northern Hunan, which annually fed not only hundreds of thousands of troops but far-distanct provinces; 2) they cleared the riverway, brought gunboats and launches as far as Ichang to make of that spot a jumping-off base for a Chungking drive; 3 ) they struck a punishing blow at China's economic life...
...factors to this rule are allowed to cover particular hardship cases. The order does not become effective until the second quarter which means that most overstocked merchants will have a chance to balance inventories without costly dumping. With this flexibility, the trade believes that it has one of the fairest orders to come out of Washington...
...guilt for the Pacific war lies not with the Emperor Myth, not with the destiny-drugged Japanese people, not even with murderous fanatics like the members of the Black Dragon, but almost entirely with the Japanese Army & Navy. From that thesis, Byas reasons his way to the clearest and fairest proposals yet advanced for peace in the Pacific...
...Cebu, fairest and wealthiest island of the lovely Visayan Sea, lay helpless before the clutch of the Jap. For days the city of Cebu, second largest in the Philippines (pop. 142,912), had been all but deserted. The two movie houses were still showing outdated U.S. films; a few customers still tapped the dwindling supply of beer and whiskey in the Vienna...