Word: winnington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks last week, a group of United Nations correspondents got a surprise as two Russian jeeps came screeching up. Out jumped two Westerners in slacks and white shirts, looking as if they had just come from an afternoon of punting on the Thames. One was 41-year-old Alan Winnington, British correspondent for the Communist London Daily Worker, who has been denounced in Parliament as a traitor (TIME, May 21); the other was Australian Wilfred Burchett, 39, a reporter for Paris' Communist daily, Ce Soir. They are the only Western newsmen covering the war from the Red side...
...trip from Pyongyang, said Winnington, was a "very pleasant drive." Were they bothered by planes? "I didn't notice it," said Winnington cheerfully. How about Mao Tse-tung? "Mao looked extremely well the last time I saw him on May 1." And what about the purges in Red China? "Purges? There are no purges. Gangsters, murderers and hangers-on of the old regime are being winkled out by the people themselves...
...Worker's source was Correspondent Alan Winnington, who covers the Communist forces for the London Daily Worker. When Winnington's British P.W. reports began running in the London Worker months ago, irate M.P.s shouted "Treason!" and demanded that the government take action. Suddenly, the London Worker found itself "too crowded with other news" to run the lists...
Britons were hardly surprised that the "complete account" of 40-year-old Correspondent Winnington, a British Communist since 1934, sounded as if he were covering an entirely different war. His "scoops" were splashed across the Worker's Page One under such streamers as: "U.S. Belsen in Korea," "Americans Drove Women to Pits of Death." In one village, wrote Winnington, 7,000 people had been "butchered . . . under the supervision of American officers . . . Great ditches like those of Belsen were used to try to hide the traces of the massacre...
...last week Winnington did have a beat, of sorts; he gave the names and cabled long quotes from American prisoners whom he had supposedly interviewed. The "quotes" turned out to be such a faithful parroting of the Worker's propaganda line, notably against Air Force bombings, that they could just as well have been composed in the Worker's London office. A private from Texas was quoted as saying he had "only one complaint and that is against Uncle Sam's Air Force ..." A major from New Hampshire, reported Communist Winnington, said he felt that "we [prisoners...