MAKERS OF TROUBLE
Sir,—The writer of your "Notes on tl -- War" has commented ffectively on Mr. Drew Pearson's story^ about the Allies' race to Berlin, if ohe^ may ciall it such, but something more may perhaps be said. - - Though we may think Mr. Pearson's account of Allied arrangements and Russian objections impossible, we have no way of checking it, but when he says the Americans got as far as Potsdam and withdrew, we can set this against the map and the war news. Is it possible that Mr. Pearson writes his column without looking- at the map? Not very long before he died President Roosevelt described columnists as an excrescence. Many will agree. There is a type of columnist, and he is not confined to America, who likes to make trouble. Mr. Pearson has been somewhat notorious in his irresponsibility. Today, when we are at the climax of' the war, and there is far more news of first-rate importance than newspapers can print, I. feel disposed, to protest against space being taken up with such matter.—l am, etc.,
JOURNALIST.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 9
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