The Press: The Raised Forefinger

As the U.S. Military Government's newspaper in Germany, Munich's daily Die Neue Zeitung is supposed to speak with a U.S. accent (TIME, Nov. 29). Last week anti-Nazi Germans thought Die Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will always find a sarcastic...

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