RUSSIA: Foreign Correspondent

Two years ago British Newsman George Eric Rowe Gedye had to leave his New York Times headquarters in Vienna when the Gestapo kicked him out of Austria. The next year he lost his job with the London Telegraph for criticizing Neville Chamberlain in his book, Fallen Bastions. Month later the Gestapo chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U....

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