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...Asked the Advisory Board of the OWMR to undertake a study of the annual wage. The committee promptly got to work. The study will be directed by U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Eric Johnston...
...satisfied with the limited facilities extended to reporters by the Soviet Government, and none denies the truth of certain statements in Mr. White's book [but] for the totality of its effect . . . we feel it contains far too many inaccuracies ... a highly biased and misleading report." Eric Johnston, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who had taken White to Russia with him and who does not always talk in public the way he does to "off-the-record" groups, was moved to scoot to safety: "White overemphasized the bad . . . minimized the good. . . . Moreover, there is a generous dash...
...usual stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its smells, calumnies, ignorance, and hidden anger." U.S. Reds were equally outraged by what balding, square-jawed Bill White, son of the late, great William Allen White, had to report of his six-week trip through Russia with Eric Johnston. And even non-Communist friends of the Soviet sharply criticized him for attempting to measure by U.S. standards a very different set of values and circumstances. But most readers are likely to accept and appreciate Report on the Russians for what it is: an honest, highly personal account of how the Russians...
They worked in teams of two or three. One team consisted of Sergeant Graham Johnston, ex-jockey from New Canaan, Conn., Sergeant Paul Todd, of Kalamazoo, and a Chinese boy interpreter called "Virgil." When the sergeants found it difficult to get cooperation they promoted themselves to colonels. Chinese soldiers willingly helped the "colonels." Chinese civilians, impressed by their rank, gave them special food and baths...
Captain Stanley A. Staiger, of Portland, Ore., and ex-Jockey Johnston, carrying explosives in sacks, worked for 24 hours along a river bank, never knowing for sure how near the Japs were. One after another they destroyed the bridges along their way. By the time they reached the last bridge they had only four inches of fuse left. They tamped in the charge, lit the fuse and galloped off with the uproar in their ears and debris raining around them...