A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 25, 1943

To answer some of the questions our subscribers have been asking about how TIME gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news.

Recently quite a few readers have been asking why Foreign News has been moved up ahead of World Battlefronts in some of our recent issues, why TIME has to have two departments to tell the story of the world at war instead of just one—and what is the difference between the two departments.

These questions go straight to the heart of the whole newsmagazine idea, and the only way I can answer them is...