The outbreak of war in Korea has imposed a series of new demands on the worldwide newsgathering and publishing activities of TIME Inc. Some of these new challenges and how they were met were discussed here last week. Here is a further catalogue of them:

P:At present we are flying copies of TIME to our armed forces in Korea via transport planes of the Far Eastern Air Force. The edition they are getting is the Pacific, one of our four International editions, which is identical with TIME'S U.S. edition except that its advertising is directed to the Pacific market.

P:The Pacific edition, which is printed in Honolulu and Tokyo from cellophane proofs and negatives flown from the U.S., has 38,000 subscribers and newsstand buyers in the non-Communist nations of the Pacific. Of these, 1,200 were in Korea. We had hoped to get the July 3 issue with its news of U.S. armed intervention in Korea to our readers there, but the fall of Seoul prevented that.

P: With this issue, War in Asia, which began as a special section last week, becomes one of TIME'S regular news departments. In it, TIME'S editors will continue to present in one department all of the major news of the Asian conflict. For the time being, the International section will be discontinued.

P: In War in Asia this week you will find a first-rate, first-hand report from Formosa by John Osborne, Senior TIME-LIFE Correspondent in the Far East. Osborne, who was in the Philippines when the Korean war began, is a veteran journalist and war correspond ent of some 20 years' experience. Before returning to work in the U.S. in 1948, he was head of TIME Inc.'s London bureau.

P: For first-hand coverage of the U.S. Navy's part in the Asian conflict, Correspondent Wilson Fielder is with our naval forces in the Korean area. Fielder was in China until the fall of Shanghai, more recently has been in Hong Kong and Tokyo.

P: For this issue's cover story on Stalin, the editors relied extensively on our bureaus and correspondents in Rome, Paris, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki and Washington. In these news centers our reporters talked to all of the experts whose business it is to know the Russians, and who have the best sources of information on Russia. With this information for guidance, the editors have tried to analyze the crisis in Asia from the Kremlin's viewpoint. This, incidentally, is the eighth time that Stalin has been on TIME'S cover.

P: Frank Gibney, our Tokyo bureau chief, who was injured when a bridge blew up under him during the evacuation of Seoul, missed being ambushed by about five minutes last week. He had gone out with an intelligence and reconnaissance patrol on Friday, but had to turn back late in the afternoon to return to the regimental command post and prepare to fly to Tokyo to file his copy. A few minutes after he had left, the patrol was ambushed by North Korean infantry. Gibney's cable added that his new eyeglasses had arrived on schedule. His only pair had been broken in the explosion at the bridge.

Cordially yours,

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