Analysis of Mr. [Generoso] Pope's New York Daily's For the Period of April 25th to April 29th, Inclusive

POPE Analysis of Mr. Pope's New York Daily's For the Period of April 25th to April 29th, Inclusive TRUMAN HARRY 'NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS LIBRARY U.S. Captions, local news, editorials and letters to the editor, reveal GOVERNMENT an enormous change of policy of the paper in comparison with those followed up to a year ago. They certainly reveal a reverse of policy in com- parisên with those of a year ago, or of followed previous to June, 1940. The papers now fully support the United States war effort and do their best induce to use the Italians to back up such efforts. News items favorable to the United States receive strong prominence-I would say they receive a slightly exaggerated prominence in comparison, for example, with the New York Times or the New York Herald Tribune. I had the opportunity to read a few copies Twomonths of these papers 40 ago. At that time the prominence of the news items favorable to the United States was much more exaggerated than at the present time and it is possible that that exaggeration of the prominence of such news was criticized by liberal or anti-Fascist elements because it tended to make too obviews the unileteral presentation of the news and to make create even in the news incredible even to the common reader the most inex estreaders Houbts about the credibility of the news (1) The point stressed in regard to Italy is that Italy is a victim of the Nazi tyrants, that Mussolini made a mistake, going to war on the side of Germany, implying mostly tacitly, but sometimes explicitly (for example, through letters to the editor) that otherwise Fascism and Il Duce would have been right. I think that Mr. Pope and his papers would be happy to see Italy separated from the Axis and to see is at the same time Fascism saved, or to see in Italy a monarchial, clerical, conservative economic political systemin which many of the present Fascist institutions and policies would be continued. Activities of Italian-American socieiíes tending to support the United States war efforts receive strong prominence. On the contrary, there is practically no reference (1) atthattime profescest a reader commented once condidly: Mr Pope has to do do: otherwise he could's publish his papers. He wants to protect the Italians,