In January 1945, "Time" magazine decided to take the "jovial, rosy-cheeked" O'Laughlin and his newspaper down a peg. Soviet state-controlled press had recently decried the "Journal's" call for Moscow to establish a second front against Nazi Germany in Poland. "All this attention from Russia was due not to the "Army & Navy Journal's" circulation (27,568 weekly) but to its reputation as an 'unofficial but authoritative' spokesman for the U.S. Army & Navy. The "Journal" itself likes to foster this impression... Actually, the "Journal" is not in the least official. Nor is it always authoritative." O'Laughlin, the newsweekly sniffed, "still does much of its leg work. He has five assistants, only one of whom (a former chaplain) has a military background."