Atlantic Monthly Press under fire in Lattimore debate
A Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler column critiques New York Herald Tribune and New York Times book reviews defending Owen Lattimore. It argues the pieces function as political propaganda, not literary criticism, linking publisher Angus Cameron to various leftist causes and Communist associations.
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New York
New York Herald Tribune
New York Times
Owen Lattimore
Joe McCarthy
Wisconsin
The
Times
Lattimore
Senate
Herald Tribune
Atlantic Monthly
Double-Dome Press
Atlantic Monthly Press
Little, Brown and Company
Boston
Angus Cameron
McCarthy
United States
Cameron
Wallace
Progressive Citizens of America
New Masses
Howard Fast
Tito
Yugoslavia
Fast
Samuel Adams School of Social Studies
Supreme Court of the United
Louisiana House Votes 56 to 33 Against People Voting on New Constitution
The Louisiana house rejected a bill to require any proposed constitutional convention to submit a full new constitution to a public vote. The debate featured Gov. Earl Long allies and opponents, with amendments from Rep. Bland Cox Bruns and Rep. Edwin F. Hunter Jr. discussed as the session addressed constitutional revision plans.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana House
Caddo Parish
Bland Cox Bruns
New Orleans
Earl Long
Wellborn Jack
Caddo
John MacKeithen
House
Edwin F. Hunter, Jr
Jack
President Truman Holds Full Chiefs of Staff Briefing
President Truman convened the entire joint chiefs of staff for a military briefing at the White House. Gen Omar Bradley led the briefing with Gen J Lawton Collins Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg and Adm Forrest P Sherman in attendance. The session included charts and material for a general survey and lasted about 30 minutes. Truman will meet congressional leaders tomorrow as usual on Mondays.
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Washington
Truman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Point Chiefs
Omar N. Bradley
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Bradley
White House
Mr. Truman
Charles G. Ross
Ross
New Cattle Ban Proposal Faces Special Session Hurdles
Rep Horace Dugas plans to amend an administration backed highway ban to include cattle on Louisiana roads. Rural lawmakers fear harm to small farmers and say any cattle clause may fail in the special session. Support is mixed but experts doubt success, with emphasis on federal high ways as a possible path.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Horace Dugas
St. Charles Parish
Dugas
Samuel Cashie
Iberville Parish
M. W. Hargrove
Ascension
Hargrove
Charles Duchein
East Baton Rouge Parish
Percy Roberts
Duchein
Philippines offers 5000 troops for Korea aid
President Quirino announced to General MacArthur that the Philippines will dispatch a fully trained 5000 infantry regiment to Korea at its own expense. If more troops are needed, volunteers will be trained but foreign funds would be required. Senate support framed the move as aiding democracy against Communist aggression. Quirino also ordered impounding of privately owned military equipment.
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Manila
Philippines
Korea
Quirino
MacArthur
Formosa
Senate
Mariano Jesus Cuenco
United States
United Nations
Cuenco
Japan
Australia
Indonesia
New Zealand
India
Pakistan
Kremlin
Harriman Flies to Korean Front with Truman Aid
W Averell Harriman, Truman's foreign affairs aide, flew to the Korean war front as American troops began their first offensive. He visited a battalion command post near the front, observed heavy artillery, and met with Lt General Walton Walker at the Eighth Army HQ before returning to Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Truman
W. Averell Harriman
Japan
Harrimen
Harriman
U. S
Eighth Army
Walton H. Walker
Haneda
Formosa
Taipei
Air Force pilot crash lands near Philadelphia airport
Lt. Col. Robert C. Brown of New York crash landed a twin-engine C-45 near the north Philadelphia airport after ordering his passenger Tech. Sgt. Joseph Reidy of Pittsburgh to parachute. Reidy was uninjured. Brown suffered head injuries and was taken to Nazareth Hospital. Engines failed at 7,000 feet on a return trip from Grenier Field New Hampshire to Bolling Field Washington.
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Philadelphia
Air Force
Robert C. Brown
New York
Brown
Nazareth
Joseph Reidy
Pittsburgh
Grenier Feidl, N. H
Bolling Field
Washington
France Pledges Three Year Rearmament Plan
Paris reports France will spend the equivalent of $5.71 billion on rearma ment over three years to deter commun ist aggression. It seeks 15 new divisions and a unified Western defense command with allied funding. Britain Denmark and Norway outline sizable defense outlays with U S aid.
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Paris
France
Britain
United States
Europe
Truman
Denmark
Norway
Bridges to Seek Release on Habeas Corpus Writ
Harry Bridges lawyers plan to seek his release from jail today on a writ of habeas corpus after federal Judge George Harris revoked Bridges bail of 25 000. Bridges faces a perjury conviction tied to his 1945 naturalization oath and the case hinges on national security concerns amid the Korean crisis.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Harris
Bridges
Department of Justice
Communist Party In
Australia
Roosevelt proposes mass California evacuation plan
James Roosevelt, Democratic governor candidate, urges immediate evacuation of 4 million Californians from major cities if attack threat rises. He outlines zones from 23 million acres of land, detailing 2.5 million from Los Angeles, 1.5 million from the Bay Area, and 500,000 from San Diego to gather in designated centers before moving to evacuation sites.
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Sacramento
Calif
James Roosevelt
California
Los Angeles
San Francisco- Oakland Bay
San Diego
Red Cross
Warren
Long proposes six year term with no reelection
Gov Earl Long backs a six year governor term but opposes a successor bid. He urges a constitutional convention call and warns against extending terms without voter approval. He also proposes to cut his term by two months to fit November elections and legislative timing.
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Baton Rouge
Earl Long
Louisiana
Long
Louisiana Law Institute
United States
Army reports 2616 Korean War casualties through August 6
The U S army released casualty figures for the Korean conflict totaling 2 616 through August 6 with 153 killed 1 590 wounded and 873 missing. Additional lists await family notification and cover only army personnel.
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Washington
Murray Gains In Oklahoma Votes In Governor Race
Johnston Murray widened his lead with a net 128 votes in unofficial returns from 25 counties as Oklahoma conducts the state supremecourt ordered recount. William O. Coe seeks to overturn the July runoff result while slow counts stretch into a third day with judges supervising ballots.
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Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
State Supreme Court
Oklahoma
William O. Coe
Coe
Murray
Bryan County
B 29s Strike Pyongyang as Korean Offensive Opens
U S Marines and Army infantry smash a 20 mile front in southeast Korea pushing back Reds about two miles in the first American offensive after weeks of retreat. About 9,000 Americans with South Korean units join the attack against the North Korean Sixth and First Divisions as B 29s hit Pyongyang and Wonsan with 540 tons of bombs.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
U. S
Korea
W. Averell Harriman
Truman
Harriman
25Th
Pusan
United Nations
Yechon
Eighth Army
Kogan
Fifth Marine
First Marine
U. N
Chingam
Chinju
MacArthur
Bomber crash at Fairfield base kills 17 airmen
At Fairfield-Suisun Calif Aug 7 a B 29 bomber crashed after takeoff in a training flight killing 17 air force men and injuring many more including families at a nearby trailer camp. Brig Gen Robert F Travis among the dead. 8 of 20 aboard escaped.
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Fairfield-Suisun
Calif
Air Force
Robert F. Travis
Bast Fire Department
Bese
E. Q. Steffes
East Chicago
Ind
R. H. Lewis
Clay
Paraplegic Vet Shot and Killed at VA Hospital
A paraplegic veteran, Vance Clary of North Carolina, was shot six times at McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital Richmond. Kenneth Kennedy, a second paraplegic patient, was charged with murder and bond set at 10000. A federal court hearing was scheduled for Kennedy.
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Richmond
McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital
Vance Clary
Randleman
N. C
R. W. Wright
Bond
U. S
George R. Hamrickhouse
Wright
Kennedy
Clary
War Chaplain Spraggins Holds Revival in Fort Worth
Evangelist Henry G. Spraggins, former oil man and night club show boat owner, speaks nightly at a big tent on Jewel Street Honest John Addition. About 800 hear How I Escaped From the Prisoner of War Camp in Germany during World War II. He shares his experiences of grace saving a night club owner and promises a future talk on how his nine year old daughter led him to Christ. He entered service in 1943 as a Chaplain with the 99th Infantry Division of General Patton's Third Army.
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Henry G. Spraggins
Fort Worth
Texas
Jewel Street
Honest John Addition
Germany
Spraggins
Rev
99Th Inf
General Patton
Third Army
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