At long last, the foreign press invaded Soviet-occupied Manchuria. After months of Red tape and runarounds, 22 correspondents and photographers found it deceptively easy to push aside the iron curtain that had kept them out. With a hesitant Godspeed from the Chinese, they boarded northbound trains at Chinchow for sightseeing tours of Mukden, and Changchun, the capital.
Last week, as the newsmen straggled back to Shanghai and Peiping, bitter stories and shocking pictures showed up in the U.S. press. Getting at the news in liberated, looted Manchuria had been a grim business. Some of the correspondents wrote as if they had shared...
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