The Press: Mission to Moscow

Of all U.S. dailies, only the good, grey New York Times thinks it worth the trouble to keep a full-time correspondent in Moscow. For four years Harrison Salisbury, 45, former foreign-news editor of the United Press, has held down the job, and his heavily censored stories have often sounded more like Red propaganda than news. Last week Salisbury, who has been asking to be relieved, prepared to come home. The Times announced that he will be replaced, probably in September, by German Bureau Chief Clifton Daniel.

Newsman Daniel went to work for Josephus Daniels'...