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...Sayings of Franklin D. Roosevelt," slyly picking the ones they had frequently berated, including the "again and again and again" anti-war pledge.) The Christian Science Monitor, to which death is a taboo subject, ran an eight-column banner: "TRUMAN PLEDGES U.S. TO ROOSEVELT POLICY." Only in the second paragraph was there a fleeting reference to "the sudden, unwarned passing of Mr. Roosevelt." Cerebral hemorrhage was not mentioned, but the Monitor spoke guardedly of "what had happened in the 'Little White House' in Warm Springs, Ga." The New-Dealing New York Post headed its Army-Navy casualty list...
...emerging comity of nations." Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him. These included Churchill, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else's. Sometimes N.C.A.S.F. seemed to be drubbing Reporter White over the head with a peppermint candy stick. (White: "The women are drab, sallow and tired." Rebuttal...
Despite its gestures toward the French, the Crimea declaration made it clear that the Big Three did not yet rate France as one of the trustees, even in western Europe. Even the cordial paragraph inviting "the Provisional Government of the French Republic" to join in the guardianship of liberated Europe implied that the Big Three could get along without France...
...were its only reader. So right were his news judgments that the wire services for many years telegraphed the Times's front-page news-play to clients for guidance. Some of Van Anda's news decisions are classic: he took a one-paragraph report that the steamship Titanic was in trouble, expanded it into columns of type-while other Manhattan papers played the story down, and at least one pooh-poohed the whole thing because the Titanic was "unsinkable." Van Anda perceived that General Ludendorffs big offensive on March 21, 1918 was the beginning...
Germans, wondering whatever has become of Adolf Hitler, were startled by an apparently pointless but planted paragraph in Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter. Headed The Man of Genius, it said...