"As Drew Pearson Revealed . . ."

They had broken bread together at the White House, but the meal didn't make them friends. Winston Churchill had obviously had little use for the how-to-win-the-war ideas of Author Louis Adamic. And five years later, when Adamic published his Dinner at the White House, a between-courses sizeup of the President and the Prime Minister (TIME, Sept. 2). he garnished it with anti-Churchill references. Churchill sued for libel, citing a footnote on page 151 of Dinner:

"As Drew Pearson revealed in one of his columns early in 1945, the motives for the British policy in Greece were at least partly linked to the fact that Hambro's Bank of London, the chief British creditors of Greece . . . had bailed Winston Churchill out of bankruptcy in 1912."

Last week in London, Adamic and his publishers, Harpers, decided that they had been taken for a ride on Drew Pearson's glittering "Washington Merry-Go-Round." It cost them an estimated $20,000. It was proved in court that Churchill had never been under obligation to the bank. To every person in England who was sent a copy of the book, Harpers promised to send a correction and an apology. Author Adamic had never asked Merry-Go-Rounder Pearson to prove his statement, and had added the footnote after Harpers had accepted the final proofs.

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