In the Rocky Mountain News:
PARENTS ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT The Beat That Backfired From London, Jean Allary, veteran diplomatic correspondent for Agence France-Presse, filed what he thought was a big news beat: Dean Acheson had privately assured French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman that the U.S. intends to keep troops in Europe indefinitely.
Paris' afternoon papers broke the story from A.F.P., one of the world's half dozen biggest news services, in Page One headlines. It was perfectly timed. The Assembly was still quarreling over whether to back the European Army (see INTERNATIONAL). Acheson's supposed assurance was needed by the Faure government to quiet...
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