The Press: Who’s Crumbling?

The New York Post clamorously headlined its lead story one day last week:

15T ARMY REACHES ROER

NAZI DEFENSES CRUMBLE

In a directly adjoining column appeared an A.P. dispatch from Beverly Hills, Calif, which began: “General Henry H. Arnold says he hates to hear stories that German defenses are crumbling. ‘I’d like to know where they’re crumbling,’ the Army Air Forces commanding general said at a press conference.”