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from its correspondents or its sources or because Harry Luce felt very strongly about this, traveling around the world, having been concerned about--?

Well, yes, it was partly that. It was partly the influence of the British. Remember the British? The British were believing this long before and long after. The British believed this in 1943 and Churchill believed this when he did the Iron Curtain speech in 1947, or something like that. So they were having their influence on us. Most of the time it's other people having influence of you that makes you say what you do. It doesn't come pure out of your brain.

What I'm trying to clarify here and I'm not pushing you to give a particular answer, I want you to deny it if that's true, in other words, you don't view that period of time as Harry Luce constantly coming down and saying, “This is the way the world's going and this is what our magazine should reflect.”

No.

In other words, it was a lot of input from different sources?

Absolutely. Also, to the extent that it was Harry, you have to remember that Harry was also being influenced by a different source, namely China. He was trying to prevent China from being taken over by the communists. He was promoting Chiang Kaishek as being a god.