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Although there are nearly 300 correspondents from 19 nations accredited to Korea, the London Communist Daily Worker last week boasted that it was "the one newspaper . . . able to give a complete account of what is really happening." Basis for this all-sweeping statement: Worker Staffer Alan Winnington is the only English-language correspondent with the North Korean army...
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...
...systematic way that Dr. Dock would appreciate. Finally, buried deep in a volume of The Works of William Harvey (discoverer of the circulatory system), Dr. Belt found a four-page chapter titled: Anatomical Examination Of The Body Of Thomas Parr. It began: "Thomas Parr, a poor countryman, born near Winnington, in the County of Salop [England] died on the 14th of November in the Year of Grace 1635, after having lived 152 years and nine months and survived nine princes...
Tickled pink was London's 81-year-old Lord Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, when he won his match (against 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton) in the annual Church v. Press golf tourney, was presented with an initialed golf bag. Bishop Ingram rose to the occasion, drove straight, kept out of bunkers, where he uses "the most awful language...
...excuses to the Benchers, went to a theological seminary and was ordained a minister of the Church of England a year later. Two men are supposed to have been responsible for this conversion: the late Bishop of Lincoln and the present Bishop of London, popular, tennis-playing Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram...