Mr. Geof. Dawson, Editor of "The Times", Wields Powerful Influence in Nation's Affairs By Pert Lyne (In the "Christian Science Monitor")
If it were possible to ranz public oppose the Government only in men like lawn tennis playc- Mr. extreme cases. Its modest circulation, Geoffrey Dawson, editor of "The just over 190,000, is no indication of Times," would be wei up in the list its great influence. It is essentially of England's most important men. a haunter of exalted places. There He is placed in the first ten by one are people who do not believe a news well-informed outside observer of item is true until they have seen European affairs, it in "The Times." Occasionally they But it is unusually difficul: 1c have to wait a day or so, for accuracy esses-Mr. Dawson's s'andiij because s more important than speed in his work is all done behind the Printing House Square. scenes; he is hidden by a cloak of "The Times," however, gets its anonymity. Unlike the producer of share of scoops; they are usually a play, he does not even have his carefully planned affairs or the rename on the programme. He is far sult of the exceptional contacts of its ioo shy ever to take a bow before staff. The sieve for straining off inthe curtain. His name and face are accuracies must have about the finest practically unknown to the public. mesh ever devised by a newspaper. in fact, he is almost a recluse.
A feature of its foreign news service "G'day, chieh, me and the Team has come Newspaper men are seldom tongue-is that it has no correspondent in answer To e advert ap YY somebody tied, Wherever you meet them you Moscow. This is due to the difficulty a geo iding ow behind Lear them talking about each other in getting uncensored news out of rud themselves. But in Fleet Street Russia, So a correspondent in neigh-and its environs there is silence bouring Riga covers the Soviet. about Britain's No. 1, editor. He is It has a quite frightening standard Low in the "Evening seldom seen by fellow editors. There of dignity. Kurt von Stutterheim, e no anecdotes of him going the after more than ten years in Lon-
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rounds, Search where you will in don as correspondent of the Ber-every nook and cranny of the Press liner "Tageblatt" says in his book, Club and reference libraries, there is "The Press in England,"......'The little mention of him. He has few Times'....is something more than a PARACHUTE JUMPING THRILLS,
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