avoid having to mention the report, the "Times" cut out that day every word of its news about the struggle over the peace treaty in the Senate! Instead, it gave two columns, of which I quote the headlines:
ROOSEVELT SCORES REDS
"Smash 'Em!" Cries Teddy, Jr., in Talks Telling of Perils in Radicalism
That was on Sunday morning. On Monday morning
again, the "Times" had not a word about Bullitt, and not a
word about the agitation over the peace treaty in Washington,
the most important news of the day; the reason being simply
that Washington was talking about the Bullitt report, and
about nothing else! But on Tuesday, the British government
issued a denial of some of Bullitt's statements—one of those
evasive denials whereby the gigantic trading corporation tells
lies without quite telling them; so once more the "Los Angeles
Times" was willing to mention William C. Bullitt!
I call up the "Los Angeles Examiner," to ask if the Associated Press handled the Bullitt report. The "Los Angeles Examiner," you understand, gets the Associated Press service—is one of the "forty-one vote" newspapers. Both the city editor and the telegraph editor assure me that the Associated Press did not send the "Examiner" a word of it—the most important news about Russia yet made available to the American people! Says the "Nation":
No newspaper has printed Mr. Bullitt's testimony in full or even
in generous part; there were only three press representatives present
when he testified, and he has had the invariable experience of having
his testimony misquoted and altered, and interviews attributed to him
which he never gave.
The Social Revolution came in Hungary. It came in an
orderly and sensible way, without terror, without bloodshed;
and how was it treated by Capitalist Journalism? It was
treated just as the Russian Soviets had been treated—as an
outcast and outlaw. All the power of World Capitalism
was turned against the Hungarian Communist government.
Poland, Roumania, the Ukraine, all made war upon it, with
French officers and British tanks and American money; and
at the same time the great lying-machine was put to work.
The news agencies brought the report that Bela Kun had fled
to the Argentine; and two days later that he was about to be
