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- Hearst did not invent
- the techniques of the
- yellow press, but he
- gave jaundice to
- journalism by his
- example. His pioneering
- lay in reducing popular
- crusades to the level of
- a travelling circus. By
- lowering public taste,
- he raised circulation.
- "What we're after is the
- 'gee-whizz' emotion,"
- one of his staff said. On
- this formula Hearst
- founded what became, by the Thirties, the world's biggest
- publishing empire. Notorious as an instigator of the
- Spanish-American War of 1898, he was a failed politician
- in the Progressive Era, an Anglophobe until 1917, a pro-
- Nazi in the Thirties, an anti-Red in the Forties. Hearst
- championed populist reforms in his early days and
- changed most of the world's newspapers. For better or
- worse, he was the first great press lord who rose on the
- irresistible combination of patriotism, populism and pap.
- His life inspired one masterpiece - Orson Welles' Citizen
- Kane
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- A chain of more than 20 Hearst newspapers in this country
- makes the charge this morning that "through its Comintern
- in Moscow and its puppet organisations in the United
- States, Soviet Russia is taking an aggressive part in the
- Presidential campaign in America - on the side of the New
- Deal."
-
- Yesterday afternoon, acting on advance knowledge of this
- charge, a statement was issued at the White House, signed
- by Mr. Stephen Earle, one of President Roosevelt's
- secretaries, that "the President does not want and does not
- welcome the vote or support of any individual or group
- taking orders from alien sources."
-
- The statement speaks of a "certain notorious newspaper
- owner" and describes articles attempting to make it appear
- that Mr. Roosevelt "passively accepts support of alien
- organizations hostile to the American form of government"
- as "conceived in malice and born of political spite." The
- American people, it says, will not permit their attention to
- be diverted by "fake issues, which no patriotic, honourable,
- or decent citizen would purposely inject into American
- affairs."
-
- The charges of the Hearst newspapers are based on a
- report appearing in the July issue of the Communist
- International written by Mr. Earl Browder, who is the
- Communist candidate for the American Presidency. Mr.
- Browder, they say, is only a titular candidate, and is
- "campaigning obliquely for Mr. Roosevelt's re-election."
-
- The same sort of accusation was made yesterday by Father
- Coughlin in a speech at Des Moines, Iowa, to his National
- Union for Social Justice. He challenged Mr. Roosevelt to
- repudiate the support of "Earl Browder and the Communist
- Party" declaring that Mr. Browder is "publicly urging" his
- fellow-members "to vote for Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr.
- Roosevelt grins and likes it."
-
- Our Correspondent at The Hague telegraphs that Mr. Hearst
- arrived in Amsterdam on Saturday after a tour round
- Europe. In a statement to the Press he said that he had
- dropped Mr. Roosevelt because Mr. Roosevelt had broken
- his promises.
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- The political ambitions of Mr. William Randolph Hearst
- were again frustrated on Saturday, when the Convention of
- the Democratic Party of New York State unanimously
- adopted Mr. Alfred E. Smith as the party's candidate for
- the Governorship of New York at the coming election.
- Despite the employment of the full power of his great
- newspaper organization, Mr. Hearst's campaign for
- nomination failed signally, and at the last moment he
- withdrew.
-
- Apart from the sweeping defeat of Mr Hearst, who had
- been generally credited with Presidential aspirations, the
- outstanding feature of the Convention was the adoption as
- a plank in the party's election programme of an
- amendment of the Volstead Act enforcing the Prohibition
- Amendment to the Constitution in such a way as to permit
- the sale of beer and light wines. This is the first time since
- the coming of the prohibition laws that a modification has
- been officially sponsored by either political party in any
- State.
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- Mr. William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper
- proprietor, in a broadcast from his home at San Simeon,
- California, on Saturday night, replied to Mr. Churchill's
- recent broadcast to America, in which he invited the
- United States to join France and Great Britain in a
- concerted drive against dictatorships. In the course of his
- address Mr. Hearst said:-England is now afraid that the
- domination which she and France have exercised over
- Europe since the execution of the Versailles Treaty will be
- jeopardized. England is also disturbed about her great
- interests in the Orient. Singapore is not safe. Japan is
- menacing Hong-Kong. England's Navy cannot be in several
- places at once; England's Army cannot be both at home and
- abroad. England wants other navies and other armies.
-
- England needs help. And where should she turn for help
- except to good old Uncle Sam, so sought after when he is
- needed, so scoffed at and scorned in all intervening times.
- English propaganda is again flooding the United States;
- English soft soap is again being poured over Uncle Sam's
- devoted head, lathered into his ears and eyes. There is a
- great deal of sense in the mood and attitude of the
- majority of Americans and a great deal of wisdom in
- America's policy of attending to its own affairs and
- keeping free from entangling foreign alliances... In failing
- to do so she would be repeating those serious mistakes
- which involved her in the World War.
-
- It is no part of the duty of this English-speaking nation,
- the United States of America, to support the British Empire
- in her ambitious schemes to dominate Europe, absorb
- Africa, and control the Orient. The United States is not
- merely a collection of disloyal colonies. America is no
- longer a land to be exploited like India and Africa.
-
- Perhaps even Germany wants peace when she offers
- England peace and the limitation of armaments, while the
- German navy is held at one-third the size of England's.
- Perhaps England does not want that kind of peace and
- security? But if she does not actually and earnestly want
- peace and security, why did she, betray Czechoslovakia?
- If England only wants peace to prepare for war, she has
- gained that by the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, but she has
- certainly not gained the faith of the rest of the world in
- her faithful and zealous comradeship. Even innocent and
- confiding America is beginning to realize that Communistic
- France and Imperial England are not altogether idealistic
- and altruistic democracies like our own.
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