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...stories stretched into November, and won Reston his first Pulitzer Prize...
...State Department was predictably annoyed. They even set the FBI to work - unsuccessfully - trying to trace the leak. But Reston was not flustered. And his scoop was only beginning...
Following his rule that "you should always look around for the guys who are unhappy," he had persuaded the Chinese to give him the complete texts of the position papers prepared by the governments. As the Conversations progressed, Reston discussed the relevant sections...
...Reston was only 34 when he broke the Dumbarton Oaks story. He had been in Washington less than a year. He was, as he puts it, "in a hell of a hurry." But there was more to his energy that ambition. He had been in journalism a third of his life, and he had convictions about his calling...
That, said Reston, was why he had gone after the position papers, and why the Times had published them. "Nothing is more effective in political life than a fait accompli," he said. "Nobody knows this better than the politician. It is therefore the duty of the reporter to get the facts as quickly as possible...