The Press: Misfire

In her Washington Times-Herald, 29-year-old Editor Ruth Miller has faithfully echoed her Uncle Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune blasts against the "slaughter" in Korea. Last week "Bazy" Miller fired a broadside all her own. Across two columns of Page One, she spread a letter from an anonymous "soldier-husband" to his wife that told a chilling story of the "horror that was the Hungnam evacuation—the American Dunkirk."

"I've been through hell—total bloody hell," said the letter. "Landed at [Pusan] half frozen from two days on open decks —no food but hot water to drink. Eleven hundred men . . . on a Victory...