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...Mirror series he reported that almost no one seemed to have heard of the United Nations Report on Hungary, and he stated that when he asked the people if they had read it, he received only blank stares...
Since his return he has recorded his observations in several newspaper and magazine articles. The following material was culled largely from a series he did for the New York Mirror under the title "I Balted the Reds in Red Square" and from various newspaper, television and personal interviews...
...Everything I told them was the direct result of probing questions from the crowd," Abrams reported in his Mirror series. "There were plenty of willing interpreters for those who couldn't understand English. The crowd was starved for information. The things I told them about were what they wanted to know. They liked me and respected me for standing up and talking to them frankly...
This couple also told him of student unrest in Russian universities, but Abrams expressed difficulty in assessing the exact extent of such discontent. "I heard conflicting stories," he told the Mirror. "Some students from Leningrad told me there had been a protest meeting at Leningrad University. When it was over, 45 students were expelled and were seen no more. They just disappeared. Other students denied these stories...
Archaic Britons. Meantime still another ad began appearing in newspapers in U.S. cities: "Student of Anglo-American relations is anxious to know what qualities are most disliked in the British . . ." It proved to be the work of the London Daily Mirror's waspish Columnist Cassandra (William Connor), who could hardly wait to return from his vacation to see what the postman had brought. One of the papers carrying his ad, the Washington Post and Times Herald, published its own reply: "The British are archaic. They cling to worn-out practices. They profess to see virtue in . . . training for public...