One month after conceding "in principle" that Americans are entitled to firsthand reporting from Red China (TIME, July 29), Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took the logical next step. Last week he gave permission to 24 news-gathering organizations to send U.S. reporters to the Chinese mainland for the first time since 1949.
It was, nonetheless, a grudging retreat, and its course was mined with restrictions that not only invited continued criticism from the press but limited the scope and effectiveness of the reporting job that Dulles finally conceded to be necessary, or at...
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