Word: izvestia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defender of Stalin's politics' with a special bent for Soviet worship. . . ." The New Leader, an anti-Communist labor paper, described him as "a servile propagandist... a consistent fabricator ... of his personal life and history," recalled that he was once praised by the Soviet Izvestia as a "lonely voice" in America. The New Leader also pointed out that Steel had the classic commentator's background-in 1934 he had written: "Hitler's days are numbered. The reader can count them on his fingers...
...Moscow last week Izvestia attacked the Pope's appointment of 32 new cardinals as "the Vatican's new orientation in reactionary circles of other countries [and] part of a great political maneuver intended to improve the Vatican's position in the international arena." It said Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, one of the 32, was carrying out the Vatican policy by "trying to persuade the American people to accept Franco...
...great power of aggression? Korea, still split between U.S. and Russian occupation zones, symbolized a whole set of answers needed on dependent areas and trusteeship. The Moscow press showed that Molotov was mincing no words on the Far East-Pravda challenged the presence of U.S. troops in China, and Izvestia complained that the U.S. tolerated "Japanese militarists in the toga of democrats...
...verbal. It began in Tiflis, where two professors, S. R. Dzanashia and N. Berdzenishvili, wrote a letter demanding that 10,000 square miles of Turkey (see map), "the seized cradle of our people," be forthwith handed over to the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. The letter was promptly featured in Izvestia, Pravda and Red Star-the Government, Party and Army organs...
Last week Moscow's Izvestia lifted the recent blackout on Dr. Kapitza, said, that he had helped equip a great new laboratory on Mt. Alagoz, a remote eminence in remote Soviet Armenia. Kapitza's announced activity: research in stratospheric cosmic rays, a roundabout approach to the harnessing of atomic energy. U.S. scientists, pondering the sparse accounts from Moscow, were willing to swear that there was nothing roundabout in Dr. Kapitza's other atomic doings...