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Lounging in Boston's Ritz-Carlton this week. Ambassador Joseph Patrick Kennedy talked to Louis M. Lyons of the Boston Globe, two other newsmen, was mightily wroth when he saw Reporter Lyons' bylined story of the interview. Excerpt: "Democracy [said Kennedy] is finished in England. . . . It's all an economic question. I told the President in the White House last Sunday, 'Don't send me 50 admirals and generals, send me a dozen real economists.' . . . It's all a question of what we do with the next six months. The whole reason...
Quick was Joe Kennedy to try to square himself with the Administration, his British friends for undiplomatic garrulity. His principal explanation in a formal statement given the press: the interview was supposed to be off the record; Reporter Lyons' story "creates a different impression entirely than I would want to set forth." Moaned the U. S.'s Ambassador to the Court of St. James's: "Mr. Lyons made no notes during the visit. . . . Many of [his statements] were inaccurate...
Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to England, attacked Louis Lyons, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1938-39, as having committed "the first serious violation of the newspaper code of an off-the-record interview that I have ever experienced...
Charles Edmundson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a Nieman Fellow now at Harvard, was also present at the interview but refused to comment whether Kennedy had stated that what he said was not for publication...
...Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system." Added Prophet Merten on a hint from wife Zelah: "I beg, after consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather than in this interview which I dictated." Still on the Embassy payroll for two months' accumulated leave, he announced he was off to the Capital to expound his new gospel...