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Nameless Paper in, Rome Gives Spuriou s ' News About, the holy Sep How Stories Are Invented to Deceive Foreign Correspondents eee "Tipsters" Quoted as Authoritative Vatican Sources Rumours of Rapprochement with Russia aTypical Example— ever, a fact which should appear evident immediately from their carefully planned semblance of authenticity:'
scribed to them. As these cases have arisen, official Vatican sources have scotched the stories and have repcdfated the authoritative positions attribute cd to the "tipaten." One one occasion one of the most prominent correspondents then in Rome came to me with information he thought ought to be relayed to proper \'atican authorities. It concerned a "tipster" I had not yet heard of, who professed to offer each correspondent an "exclusive " service. Subscription to the service cost a fixed amount, and this gave the foreign correspondent the Privilege of reading the material provided to him by the " tipster." If use was made of any di the material there was a further fixed charge.
,cs told me that this man's chief dis• tinction in recent years have been as the author of pornographic writings. From the tenor of the "Osservatore" statement, it seems that this man may still be active in Rome, or that his questionable mantle has fallen on other energetic shoulders.
CATHOLIC WINS NOBEL PRIZE OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC RE-
The Vatican newspaper, " OsservaThe Nobel prize for putstanding tore Romano," has issued a warning scientific research has been awarded against certain anonymous and clan• to Dr .Edward A. Doisy, head of the HOW IT ITS DONE. destine reports,which cleverly purport Department of Biochemistry at the St. Correspondent' s Redelation. to have a semiofficial Vatican authorCarefully Written. Louis University School of Medicine, Investigating this situation , Burke. ity and which have deceived corresWhat made this proposition so asconducted by the Jesuit Fathers. pondents of foreign newsagencies and Walsh ,N C.W.C. staff writer with the tonishing hvas that the " tipster" held Dr. Doisy shares the award, which U.S. forces in Italy ,states: For upbeen widely circulated as representahimself out as having a connection amounts to 29,600 dollars, with Dr. wards of three months immediatey ioltive of the views of the Holy See. with the Vatican Secretariate of State, Henrik Dam, Copenhagen scientist, "Osservatore Romano" recently conowing the liberation of Rome last SumHis "stories" were very carefully writwho is now at Strong Hospital in demned "certain anonymous and clan , er , I lived and worked in the Eternal ten, with asterisks inserted here and Rochester, N.J., having gone to AmCity. While serving as correspond• de stne reports concerning the Holy there, referring to footnotes which erica when the Germans invaded Den ent of the N.C.W.C. News Service, I claimed that this or that particular See, i 'which ,it says, have been given mark . The honour was awarded to wide publicity in the press, according. was privileged to act in a liaison ca• point came right out of the Vatican Dr. Doisy and Dr. Dam for research pacity between the Vatican and the to reports in overseas exchanges. files. To substantiate this impression, in Vitamin K, a vital factor in blood numerous Allied correspondents gatherIt exposes a studied plan whereby folio numbers and other file references clotting. ed in the Italian capital. During this spurious stories about the Vatican are were ci?,d. This was about the time Corking in Copenhagen , Dr. Dam - _ carefully prepared before retailing, time ,Isaw manifestations of the situa . that spurious stories— including those discovered that absence of the vitamin that they may have the appearance of tion against which " Osservatore Rom. about a rapprochement between the caused a deficiency disease in chicks. ano" has now seen fit to speak out in a semiofficial character. Holy See and Soviet Russia— were flyfie tried many varieties of foods, and "Osservatore "states that correspondcondemnation. ing thick and fast . It was easy to found that hog liver and alfalfa checkents of foreign agencies and news• Tipsters. see how " tipsters" could seize upon ed the bleeding and contained a mys• Coverage of nenvs in European capi. papers have been deceived by these such times to peddle their services terious substance that coagulated tats, I learned, has long involved the prepared stories and have given them among the correspondents ,who were blood. He called this substance employment of " tipsters ." These are widespread dissemination . " Osservacovering the Italian military campaign "koagulation " factor—Vitamin K. persons who, rightly or wongly, pro• tore" brands these reports as " pure inand Italian politics as well as Vatican Dr: Doisy became interested in the fess to have access to important sourventions," and asserts that their "careexperiment after he heard a graduate news. fully planned semblance of authenticces of information ,and offer to make I asked the correspondent if he had student at the University read a paper them available to foreign correspond• ity" should immediately make it eviused the story about which he told me, on the patient search for the cause of ents for specified fees. Although some dent that they are without foundation. fie said he had not, because he sushemorrhage in chicks. hold themselves out as offering "exclu"Osservatore' s" comment , carried in pected it. I asked if the " tipster'• Tremendous Task. sive tips" to individual corespondents, a front-page box, is as follows: had shown any credentials which migh• With three co-workers , Dr. Doisy "For some time past wide public:ty very many operate on the " mass sales" lend weight to his claim, to have an undertook the tremendous task of isohas been given to certain anonymous plan. That is, they offer the same official connection with the Vatican. He lating Vitamin K. They raised chicks identical news to as many correspond• and clandestine reports concerning the said he had not. Why, then, I asked, by the thousands. and sought to get ents as will take it . The leverage, in Holy See. would correspondents be misled into the K-factor out of afalfa and ¢utrid 'These reports, which'bear only a a case of this sort,is the corresponaccepting his claims and his product? fish. Finally, they dissolved it out file member,are edited wih mietieuloui, dents' ever-present fear of being He said because the material was ,so with ether. "scooped" by a competitor. If the Carr,naming perosna and title$ and carefully prepared that it could easily K-vitamin is reported to have saved giving particular facts and bearing a newspaper, takes a particular " tip• have the aspect of authority to one many lives; it is hoped it will save Vatican protocol number,to create the cter' s" service,many of the others will without considerable experience in the many others, especially those of newhave to fall quickly in line for reasons, impreedon of being of a direct, exact born infants rwho have small amounts coverage of the Vatican. and semi-official character. as they put it, of selfprotection. Iat of protothrombin in their blood Dreamt Up. "tipster" might actually turn up somePure Inventions. stream . VitaminK can be adminisInquiries of Vatican authorities thing big sometime , and if they are not • " Such reports— they are best identitered to a mother before delivery of in on his service ,they will be "scoop- brought the prompt response that the fied by mentioning their contents— a child,and to the child after birth. "tipster" was not then and had never ed." have spoken among other things of Dr. Doisy has held a number of imbeen connected officially with the Vati• "Exclusive News.' superior instructions to the Papal Nun-' portant scientific lectureships. He can. Other inquiries developed that In Rome,where you have both the cio to Argentina. or reports reaching won the St. Louis Award in 1939; the he wrote his dispatch at home, where, Quirinal and the Vatican, there are a the Holy See and controlled by it reas one person put it, he employed a Willard Gibbs Medal , top prize in number of " tipsters" who offer to the garding the Spanish situation. Since chemistry, and many other bonours. highly developed imagination to correspondents services dealing excluthese reports as in the case of various lie served at Harvard University as "dream them up." His main achievelively with Vatican news. 'Saone of others, have been accepted and di'assistant instructor in biochemistry ment seems to have been the ability these have ben held out by their fused by news correspondents of forfrom 1916 until 1917, when he entered to give his stories the appearance of clients , in reproducing their " tips," as eign agencies ,we believe it necessary the army as a lieutenant in the saniofficial statements that would mislead "au thoritative Vatican sources. Some to declare that they a'e pure inventary corps. all except the very wary. , Some sourhave even had official Vatican titles Astions without any foundation whatso•
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